Air Europa Says Flight Crew Accidentally Triggered Hijack Alert

Pilots aboard an Air Europa flight preparing to depart Amsterdam mistakenly transmitted a hijacking notice, prompting a quick response by Dutch authorities and delaying the flight by more than three hours.

Officials boarded Madrid-bound Flight 1094 at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport around 7:30 p.m. local time Wednesday and determined that the “suspect situation” was not a hijacking. Passengers were escorted from the aircraft, the Defense Ministry said via Twitter.