MEA Flight Returns to Beirut after 'Precautionary' Landing in Rome
A Middle East Airlines flight from Geneva arrived in Beirut on Sunday after landing in Rome over the absence of a passenger, the airline announced.
MEA said in a statement that the aircraft was heading from the Swiss city to Rafik Hariri International Airport in the Lebanese capital when it was revealed that a passenger with a boarding pass did not take the flight.
The pilot then made a “precautionary landing” at Rome's airport, said the statement.
The aircraft was thoroughly inspected. No traces of a bomb were found on it, it added.
MEA released the statement after reports said the Airbus 320 made an emergency landing over a false bomb warning.
The company denied the bomb threat reports.
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Geneva-beirut
Th problem was in geneva.
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...poor little guy, i'm really sorry about you, nothing left can be done for you...but, yes but we all know that you are paid by nanaharnet (-:
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Do you like airplanes Southern?
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Same day 14th of June 1985 from Athens TWA was hijacked by hizbollah..are you implying anything?
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No denial at all, it was a catastrophic and tragic error. The US made reparations and paid compensation to victim families. Do you deny that? Have a nice day terrorist thug.
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Shi bi jariss..as usual Lebanese causing trouble in foreign airports and pushing one another..
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La2 3ammo ma fi shi bijarres better safe then sorry and someone used their brain here. Respect.
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who caused trouble? enough talking out of your rear.
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No, they meant from Geneva to Beirut. The plane landed in passing in Rome, because these days, understandably, airlines get nervous when something is not exactly as previewed, and when no threat was detected, it continued on its way, back to the MEA's hub in Beirut. Geddit?
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The flight BEY-GVA-BEY is code shared with Air Canada connecting pax between Beirut and Montreal via Geneva. Sometimes connection can be short if the Air Canada flight lands a bit delayed. Pax. have to go through security before boarding another flight.Maybe one of them did not make it on time, took more time at security, got lost, or lost in shopping at duty free while his/her luggage got transferred to the MEA flight to Beirut. The boarding agents at the MEA flight should have offloaded that person's baggage and that did not happen!as they are not sure whether the passenger simply missed his flight, or ran away last minute before boarding knowing that there are explosives in his luggage. That issue was discovered after the plane took off (big mistake) MEA informed, Swiss authorities informed, plane asked to land immediately to check the luggage.nothing was found.That was the mistake of the SWISS agents at Geneva airport.
good reporting. right?