Love triangle behind hijack hoax

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A telephone threat saying a Dutch holiday flight would be hijacked turned out to be a hoax call by a jealous lover, Dutch news agency ANP reported on Friday.

The plane operated by Dutch budget airline Transavia was due to leave Rotterdam for Bodrum in Turkey on Tuesday but was evacuated after emergency services received a phone call saying it would be hijacked.

The Dutch public prosecutor said on Friday there were no indications that the plane was at real risk, and it was now treating the case as a hoax.

A 31-year-old man held for questioning was released on Friday, but a man and a woman are still being held on suspicion of supplying false information, the prosecutor said on its website.

ANP quoted the lawyer of the released man as saying the hoax call arose out of a love triangle consisting of his client and another man and woman.

(Reporting by Catherine Hornby; editing by Tony Austin.)