WUHAN, March 10 -- A Hong Kong Airlines aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing in central China's Hubei Province on Tuesday after a bomb threat.

Flight HX 337 en route from Beijing to Hong Kong, was forced to land at Tianhe Airport in Wuhan City after a bomb threat was received at 2 p.m..

The plane landed safely at 2:31 p.m. and all 295 passengers and crew left the plane.

Police later found no explosives after checking the plane thoroughly and are investigating the source of the false alarm.