New bomb scare hits Greek airline

Security alerts forced two previous Olympic Airlines planes to land

A Greek airliner bound for London was diverted to the island of Corfu because of a bomb threat.

Olympic Airlines aborted flight 265 from Athens on Monday, after the firm received an anonymous phone call.

The Airbus 300 - carrying about 220 passengers and crew - resumed the flight to Heathrow Airport early on Tuesday, after a police search.

The incident is the third security alert involving Olympic Airlines in little more than a week.

On 26 September a flight from Athens to New York was diverted to London.

Three days later another plane flying to New York was forced to land in Shannon, Ireland.

In both cases bomb warnings had been sent to Greek media. But police searches found no explosive devices.