ATHENS - An Egypt Air airliner en route from Madrid to Cairo made an emergency landing at Athens airport after a bomb alert but no explosives were found. Greek authorities quickly evacuated the 85 passengers and nine crew members of the Airbus A320 upon landing late Saturday and then searched the aircraft. âThe result of the inspection of the plane is negative,â police spokesman Leftheris Oikonomou told reporters after a four-hour search by Greek special services. The aircraft made the emergency landing at Eleftherios VÃnizelos outside Athens at 9:00 pm after âa member of the crew found... a note on a piece of paper in the planeâs toilets on which was written the words âFound the bomb?â,â said Oikonomou. Officials at Cairo airport, where the plane landed Sunday with a nine-hour delay, said the Greek authorities had detained two Kuwaiti passengers who were the last believed to have used the toilets before the note was found.
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