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Aeroflot passengers arrive in Moscow after emergency landing

An Airbus A-330 plane carrying 256 people made an unscheduled landing in Iceland on Thursday following a report of a bomb onboard

MOSCOW, August 17 (Itar-Tass) — Aeroflot passengers, whose plane made an emergency landing in Iceland en route from New York to Moscow, arrived in the Russian capital, a source in Sheremetyevo International Airport told Itar-Tass on Friday.

An Airbus A-330 plane carrying 256 people made an unscheduled landing in Iceland on Thursday following a report of a bomb onboard.

On Thursday Aeroflot sent another plane from Moscow to Keflavik International Airport in Iceland, where all 256 passengers stayed.

“The plane landed in Moscow at 03:38 Moscow time,” the airport’s information service said.

No explosives were found onboard the plane, a Russian diplomat in Iceland told Itar-Tass by phone earlier.