Flight Diverted After Woman Calls In Bomb Threat With 'Very Precise Details'

A flight intended to land in Warsaw, Poland, was diverted to Bucharest, Romania, after a woman called in a very detailed bomb threat about the plane.

The flight departed from Kutaisi, Georgia, at 2:25 p.m. GMT according to the airline, Wizz Air's, fight records. However, while on the way to Warsaw, the Kutaisi airport received a disturbing phone call and the pilot decided to make an emergency landing in Bucharest.

"The bomb threat was [flagged] from the Kutaisi airport by a woman [who] gave very precise details," Bucharest Airport spokesman Valentin Iordache told Reuters.

A Wizz Air spokesperson told the Daily Mail that the plane's crew acted in accordance with operating procedures.

"Safety and security remains Wizz Air's top priority and the airline has zero tolerance for any attempt to jeopardize it," the spokesperson added. "This is now a matter for the police."

Following a successful landing, all 173 passengers were evacuated from the plane and the passengers' entire luggage was scanned. A search was also conducted on the plane and the airline has not shared if anything was found. Newsweek reached out to Wizz Air but did not receive a response in time for publication.

The flight then took off from Bucharest at 9:12 p.m. EEST and is scheduled to arrive in Warsaw at 9:51 p.m. CEST, according to tracking conducted by FlightRadar24.

Wizz Air is Central and Eastern Europe's largest low-cost airline, according to the company's website and it has more than 600 routes operating out of 25 different airports.

In August, Jacob Meir Abdellak, a librarian from France, was sentenced to 10 months in prison after calling in a fake bomb threat against a plane at Gatwick Airport in London, according to Reuters. Abdellak had a ticket for a Norwegian Air flight from London to Los Angeles and reportedly made the call to attempt to delay the flight because he was running late.

The call was made eight minutes before the flight was scheduled to take off and passengers were required to deplane and go through a re-screening process. Due to the hoax bomb threat, the flight was delayed 90 minutes.

"This was a quite ridiculous decision made by Abdellak, who fabricated an extremely serious allegation purely for his own benefit," Gatwick Police Chief Inspector Marc Clothier told Reuters.

In 2010, a Wizz Air flight bound for London returned to the Timisoara, Romania, after an anonymous phone call was received about 15 minutes after takeoff, according to the Telegraph. All 165 passengers were evacuated and the plane was checked by security forces.