Relative responsible for Georgia airline office drama

A distraught man, who had been told erroneously that a plane on which a relative was flying had crashed, stormed into the Turkish Airlines office in the Georgian capital today and attacked its manager.

Initial reports of the incident said that the office was seized in an armed attack and that hostages may have been taken, but airline spokesman Timur Liparteliani said no hostages were seized and that no weapons were involved.

The attacker was arrested by police who had sped to the scene in centre of Tbilisi.

The attacker was a relative of a passenger on a Turkish Airlines flight and the man was told by someone that the plane had crashed, Liparteliani said.

It was not immediately clear what flight the passenger was on.

A Turkish Airlines plane was struck by lightning Wednesday while on a domestic flight between Antalya and Istanbul, but made a safe emergency landing.