The passengers of the Air Lingus flight, forced to land due to a bomb threat, have returned to Rome

The passengers of the Air Lingus Airbus A320 which left Dublin yesterday morning and headed to Fiumicino, forced to land at the military base of Evreux-Fauville, in Normandy, following a bomb threat, have returned to Rome. The passengers were re-protected by the company on a flight that left last night from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport at 9.46pm and landed in Rome Fiumicino around 11.35pm yesterday.

"I was sitting more or less in the front and in any case I could see the scene clearly. The light above the pilot's door came on and he called the first flight attendant into the cabin who rushed in. She came out very alarmed and called the others and they made the people sit down. There was no panic, but it was understood that in any case something unusual, strange was happening", said Alessandra, traveling from New York with a connecting flight to Rome via Dublin.

"Our flight was diverted to a military airport, they made us get off and searched us with dogs. We were treated well, but it was a difficult day", added Saverio Brusca, from Terracina, to the story, returning from a holiday in Dublin with his family. "We were in this military base, where we were checked, they temporarily seized our luggage according to military protocol. Then we were diverted onto a new flight and now we are in Rome and this is where this epic ends", concludes Giuseppe, a worker in Dublin, who will continue his journey to Naples.