Bomb threats target flights across Europe

Several aircraft were diverted and landed under escort today following a series of bomb threats targeting flights across the continent.

A wave of bomb threats against civilian flights led to diversions and emergency landings across Europe today. According to reports by ANSA and Infobae, several flights en route to Italy and other nations were forced to alter their paths, with fighter jets scrambled in some instances to escort aircraft to safe landings. Notably, a flight traveling from Dublin to Rome was diverted to an air base in France. Security forces and bomb squads are currently conducting inspections at the airports where the planes have landed, but further details regarding the source of the threats or the findings of the searches have not yet been released.