NEW YORK, New York – A passenger jet flying from New York to Moscow made an emergency landing in Iceland on Thursday after a phone call was made claiming there was a bomb on board, NBCNews.com reports.
A spokeswoman for Russian airline Aeroflot, Irina Dannenberg said, "There was an anonymous call saying that there was an explosive device on the plane, which was already in the air."
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Fridthor Eydal, the manager at ReykjaviK's Keflavik International Airport, told NBC News the Airbus A330 with 253 passengers on board landed safely at 6:27 a.m. (2:27 a.m. ET) and the plane had been evacuated.
A search of the plane is underway and the incident is being investigated.