JFK-Bound Flight Emergency Landing In Ireland Is False Alarm

A Delta Air Lines headed to New York from Istabul flight made an emergency landing Monday in Dublin because of a suspicious object on board, but airport authorities and police said it was a false alarm.

Irish Aviation Authority spokeswoman Lilian Cassin said the pilot requested an emergency landing "because of a suspicious device on board."

Ireland's national police force, the Garda Siochana, said officers searched the aircraft, but found no bomb and made no arrests.

Delta spokesman Anthony Black said the Boeing 767 aircraft traveling from Istanbul, Turkey, to New York's John F. Kennedy Airport had 208 passengers and 11 crew members. He said the aircraft was refueled to continue its journey later Monday.

The spokesman and Irish airport officials declined to describe the suspicious object or what caused the alarm to be raised.

ITV News reports the object was turned out to be a mobile phone that had been plugged into a shaving outlet in the passenger toilet and left wrapped in its cable.

The Dublin Airport Authority said no other flights at Dublin Airport were affected by Monday's security alert.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.