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Air alert after 'drunk' bomb claim

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PRAGUE, Czech Republic (CNN) -- A Russian plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Prague Thursday after an apparently intoxicated passenger threatened to detonate a bomb, officials said.

A spokesman for Aeroflot said the crew of the Airbus A320, which had been carrying 148 passengers en route to Geneva, had to "pacify" the man by tying him up after he began making threats.

Following the incident at an altitude of 10,200 meters, the captain decided to make an emergency landing, the statement said.

The Russian Interfax news agency, quoting an Aeroflot official in Prague, said the unruly passenger was either drunk or high on drugs.

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