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Turkish Airlines flight diverts to Morocco after bomb scare

Morocco: A Turkish Airlines flight heading to Brazil was forced by a bomb threat to land in Morocco on Monday, the airline's second scare in two days, but was cleared to fly on when no explosives were found.

Flight TK15 had departed from Istanbul and was headed for Sao Paulo when a note with the word "bomb" was found in a lavatory, a spokeswoman said.

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