Mirror Threat Passengers Arrive For Further Questioning In Florida/ Emergency

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Jan 21, 2002

Passengers on board from London to Florida which was diverted Sunday to
Iceland arrived yesterday at Orlando International Airport.

Passengers were asked to give handwriting samples after a bomb threat
scrawled on a bathroom mirror diverted them to Iceland.

Police found no explosives on the Boeing 747 and concluded that the threat
had been a hoax, said Jonas Jonasson, police section leader in Keflavik, 30
miles southwest of Reykjavik, Iceland's capital.

Questioning of the passengers and crew had not turned up any information on
the source of the threat.

Passengers were to be further questioned by U.S. authorities in Florida,
where they arrived Sunday afternoon.

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A Russian Tu-154 passenger jet of KrasAir (Krasnoyarsk Airlines) successfully
made an emergency landing at Krasnoyarsk in Siberia early today according to
Russian news agencies.

Flight 522, with 141 people on board, requested an emergency landing after
the discovery of tire fragments on the runway after its took off from
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk in Russia's far east region.

It safely landed at Krasnoyarsk at 11:10 Moscow time 0810 GMT with all rescue
services of the airport in a state of readiness.

The Tu-154 plane also carried two tons of luggage and 2.5 tons of cargo.



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