A Yak-42 Clobber airliner with 73 passengers onboard flying en route Moscow-Grozny made an emergency landing in the city of Volgograd after receiving an explosion threat, a spokesman for the Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency Rosaviatsia said on Sunday.
"The plane left Moscow for Grozny at 16.14 p.m. Moscow time. Several minutes after the airliner took off the airport received an anonymous call threatening that the plane can be exploded," the spokesman said.
"The plane's crew took a decision to make emergency landing," he asaid.
Bomb disposal experts are currently scouring the airliner for explosive devices. "When the inspection is over the airliner will continue its flight," the spokesman said.
Volgograd region Governor Anatoly Brovko has met with the passengers.
MOSCOW, October 3 (RIA Novosti)
