Photo: United A United Airlines flight from Ben Gurion Airport to Newark was diverted tonight (Sunday-Monday, November 9) to Athens International Airport.
This is flight UA168, which was operated by a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, whose registration number is N24993.
According to reported flight tracking data, the emergency code 7700, which is used by aircraft to notify air traffic control of a general emergency, was transmitted during the flight.
After the incident, the plane changed its route and landed at Athens Airport instead of continuing to its original destination in the United States.
According to data from the flight-tracking website Flightradar24, after the plane landed in Athens, a connecting flight to Newark also appeared in the system, but it was marked as canceled.
The emergency landing of a United flight in Athens this morning comes after a tense week in European aviation, during which bomb threats were received on several passenger flights. One of them was a KLM flight from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv, whose onward journey to Israel was canceled after a scheduled stop in Bucharest.
United's response will be provided when received.
