PAL receives bomb threat

PAL receives bomb threat

MANILA (DPA): A Philippine Airlines (PAL) plane was forced yesterday to abort its flight to Hong Kong and return to Manila after control tower officials received a threat saying there was a bomb aboard the jet.

No explosives were found, but the Boeing 747-200 jet carrying 125 passengers and six flight attendants returned to Ninoy Aquino International Airport.

Those aboard were evacuated when fire trucks, ambulances and bomb disposal teams met the plane on the runway.

Bomb experts with sniffer dogs searched the jumbo jet for more than two hours, unloading all luggage for inspection. After no bomb was found, the flight was cleared for takeoff shortly after noon.