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Bomb threat holds up plane

28 Aug 2008
Officials held a Transavia passenger aircraft for five hours on the runway at Rotterdam Airport (EHRD/RTM) on 26 August 2008. The aircraft was scheduled to take off with 110 passengers for Bodrum, Turkey, when officials received a phoned threat about a possible hijacking of the aircraft. No explosives or other weapons were found during a search, but two passengers were later questioned and their home searched in connection with the incident.