Bomb threat reroutes Germany-to-Seattle flight to Iceland

A bomb threat written on the mirror of an airplane restroom forced a Seattle-bound Condor flight from Germany to turn around over Greenland and make an emergency landing in Iceland.

A Tiktok video captured by Winnie The Jroo shows an entire timeline of the incident.

The flight was a Condor Airlines Boeing 767 with 266 people on board.

Passengers told KIRO 7 News the plane suddenly turned, and because of an “operational error,” the plane needed to make an emergency landing.

Passengers said the crew would not give out any information, and they appeared to be distressed.

After the passengers deboarded onto the tarmac, they said they were questioned in Reykjavik for hours.

Nick Wayne, a teenage professional wrestler from Seattle, accompanied by his mother, Shayna Edwards, described their experience with KIRO 7 News.

“We landed in Iceland in the middle of an empty tarmac, away from anything and everything. When we got off the plane, we exited the back through some mobile steps, and we were met with armed guards with very big guns,” Shayna said. “They took us down into groups, made us leave our belongings ... on the tarmac.”

“At this time, we still don’t know what’s going on. Then word started spreading amongst people that there was a bomb on the plane. That was what we learned,” Shayna continued.

Investigators never found a bomb on the plane, but they did later reveal to the passengers that someone had written “bomb on plane” in makeup, and that’s what started the emergency.

Shayna and Nick landed back safely in Seattle this afternoon.

They said investigators questioned everyone, but they never figured out who wrote the threat on the bathroom mirror.

Seventeen-year-old Nick Wayne is currently signed to All Elite Wrestling and wrestles locally for Defy Wrestling.

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