A Greek airliner bound for New York has been diverted to Shannon Airport, Co Clare, in the second bomb scare to affect the carrier Olympic Airlines in three days.
The plane landed at Shannon shortly after 5 p.m. and a search is ongoing. Nothing has been found as yet.
The Airbus A340 with 303 passengers and crew on board had left Athens airport at 1.10pm local time.
A spokesman for the airport told ireland.comthat the plane landed as normal before being escorted to a holding area by the fire service and the gardai where it is going through the "standard bomb-scare procedure."
It was decided that the plane would land at Shannon after an Athens newspaper received a telephone warning of a possible bomb on board.
A decision on when the plane will take off again has yet to be taken.
The incident follows the diverting to Stansted airport in Essex on Sunday of a New York-bound Olympic Airways plane after a different Athens newspaper received a bomb warning.
The plane landed safely at Stansted and the passengers were evacuated.
Subsequent checks of the plane and luggage revealed no devices. The plane was able to leave for New York yesterday.
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