Bomb threat on Dublin-Rome flight: Airbus A320 diverted to France

Double bomb threat over European skies. Anonymous reports indicated an alleged bomb threat on board a Finnair flight from Helsinki, which landed at Fiumicino airport around 9.30 am escorted by Air Force jets. According to reconstructions from airport sources, the clean-up operations envisaged in these circumstances were activated and are still underway this morning, as per the safety procedure, by the police bomb squad.

Alarm also for Dublin-Fiumicino flight

Also this morning a second bomb threat was received in relation to the Aer Lingus flight heading from Dublin to Fiumicino. The commander chose to land at Evreux airport, in France, for the appropriate checks. This was announced in a statement by the French Prime Minister's office, which made it known that it was carefully monitoring the situation.

The precedents

The latest alarms are not an isolated episode. In recent days there have been several cases of alarms, which fortunately later turned out to be false. On Tuesday 3 November the false alarms concerned two Ryanair flights that landed at Rome Fiumicino airport, arriving from Lisbon and Dublin respectively.