Turkish Airlines flight makes emergency landing in Barcelona after 'threat' alert

MADRID — A Turkish Airlines flight made an emergency landing Thursday at Barcelona's international airport after a passenger created an in-flight wireless network whose name contained a bomb threat, an airlines spokesperson said.

As the Turkish Airlines TK1853 flight from Istanbul was approaching its destination at Barcelona-El Prat Airport, ''it was detected that a passenger established an in-flight internet access point and set the network name to include a bomb threat,'' the spokesperson, Yahya Üstün, said. As a result, the plane, an Airbus 321, made an emergency landing.

The airline said the return flight would operate normally.