Doll confusion delays Israel-bound flight from Cyprus

The Aegean Airlines flight bound for Tel Aviv via Larnaca, was searched by police


Ians June 02, 2016 Less than a minute read
The Aegean Airlines flight bound for Tel Aviv via Larnaca, was searched by police. PHOTO: EKATHIMERINI

Brief panic over a label on a toy box caused a short delay on a flight from Cyprus to Israel on Tuesday when an aircraft cleaner thought it was a warning of a bomb.

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The Aegean Airlines flight bound for Tel Aviv via Larnaca, was searched by police at the Cypriot airport after a cleaner found a label with the word "Booba" on it in the Latin alphabet.

"Booba", which means doll in Hebrew, looks alarmingly like "bomba", or 'bomb' in Greek.

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"Cyprus's civil aviation authority checked it and there was no problem. There was a small delay, but the alarm was lifted immediately," an Aegean Airlines spokeswoman said in Athens.

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