Passenger on Dublin-Rome diverted, given the jets we thought it was a bomb

"When they told us that the plane, due to technical problems, had to land in a French airport, at a certain point we saw military jets alongside the plane and that's when we started thinking that something wasn't going right." This is the story told to ANSA by Nicola Timpone from Lucania, general director of the Gal 'La Cittadella' who is on board the Dublin-Rome flight diverted to France after a bomb scare.

"At that point - continues Timpone, who is among the organizers of the Marateale Festival - we realized that there could be a bomb threat. In the end we landed and found ourselves in a military airport surrounded by firefighters, police and many ambulances. They put us on a secondary runway, made us stop and we are still on the plane waiting to understand what is happening".