ISTANBUL, Turkey, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- A Ukrainian man who said he had a bomb and wanted to divert a plane to Sochi, Russia, site of the Winter Olympics, was detained Friday, Turkish officials said.
The Turkish Transportation Ministry said a Pegasus Airlines plane, traveling from Kharkov, Ukraine, to Istanbul with about 110 passengers, landed safely at Istanbul's Sabiha Gokcen airport after a passenger "said that there was a bomb on board" and wanted the plane to fly to Sochi, CNN reported.