An EgyptAir aircraft has made an emergency landing in Uzbekistan after receiving a bomb threat during its flight from Cairo to Beijing, the British Independent reports.
In a statement, Uzbekistan Airways said "information was received about a possible explosive device on board" in the early on Wednesday morning.
All 118 passengers and 17 crew members on board were safely evacuated after the Airbus A330 landed at Urgench International Airport. Security services are examining the plane.
Data from the FlightRadar24 tracking website showed EgyptAir flight 955 left Cairo at 11:20 pm local time on Tuesday and flew over Turkey, Armenia and Azerbaijan before making its diversion some three hours after the voyage had started.
The threat came weeks after EgyptAir's flight 804 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea between the Greek island of Crete and the Egyptian coast. All 66 people on board died in the May 19 disaster and searches for wreckage and the plane's key black boxes continue.