Ryanair Flight Evacuated by Police in Oslo After Bomb Threat

A Ryanair flight that received a bomb threat mid-air was evacuated after landing safely in Oslo on Friday, Norwegian authorities said.

Police in Norway sent “a large force” to the main airport outside of the capital on Friday. They were assisted by special forces in evacuating the passengers from the plane, police said in a tweet. Passengers were transported away from the runway in buses, they said.

The plane will now be inspected by the counter-terrorism unit and bomb squad, Norway police said.

Ryanair flight FR 1392 landed at Gardermoen airport at 12:25 p.m. local time, a spokeswoman for Avinor, the public Norwegian airport company, said in a phone interview. Avinor was informed of the situation at 11:50 a.m., she said. The flight had been traveling from Stansted to Oslo.

A spokesperson for Ryanair didn’t respond to requests for a comment. On July 13, a Ryanair jet that was en route from Krakow to Dublin made an emergency landing at London’s Stansted airport on what was later found to be a bomb hoax, Essex Police said on Twitter. While nothing suspicious was found on board, two men were arrested for making threats to endanger an aircraft, the police said.