Playstation leads to emergency landing for Turkish

A Turkish Airlines Airbus A330-200 flying from Istanbul to Beijing made an emergency landing in Astana in Kazakhstan today after crew feared there was a bomb on board.

The alert came when cabin crew found a portable playstation, the owner of which could not be immediately identified.

The aircraft registration TC-JNC operating as flight TK-20 had 241 passengers on board.

When cabin crew found the playstation they made a number of tannoy calls to identify the owner of the device. When nobody came forward they became suspicious and feared it was possibly a bomb. The captain decided to divert to Astana for a precautionary landing.

A subsequent search revealed no traces of explosives on board the aircraft. The flight then continued to Beijing, arriving 6.5 hours late.