The first reports concerned an Aer Lingus plane en route from Dublin to Rome, which landed at Évreux Air Base in Normandy at around 10am on Thursday after receiving a bomb threat. According to French media, it was escorted to the base by French fighter jets.
Bomb disposal teams are on site, and the situation is being monitored by the office of French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, French TV channel BFM reports.
Reports of threats against aircraft have also come from Italian public broadcaster Rai, concerning a Finnair plane from Helsinki to Rome that has now landed at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport. A Wizz Air plane from Milan to Warsaw has also been diverted to Vienna, according to Italian news agency Ansa.
Bomb experts in Copenhagen
Reuters is also reporting that three aircraft - from Copenhagen, Madrid and London - have made emergency landings in Bulgaria after bomb threats. In addition, a LOT flight bound for Warsaw had to be diverted to Brussels, according to the newspaper Le Soir.
Shortly before that, police and bomb experts were dispatched to Copenhagen Airport, according to the Ritzau news agency, after threats against two aircraft. The planes were searched, but no suspicious objects were found.
More threats this week
On Tuesday, threats were made against around ten aircraft in European airspace - including an SAS plane from Copenhagen to Warsaw - leading to the planes being diverted and an airport being temporarily closed.
Fighter jets were also scrambled to escort two planes due to land in Rome. No explosives were found on either aircraft.
On Monday, a plane bound for London from Sofia was forced to make an emergency landing in Budapest, escorted by Hungarian fighter jets.
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