Photo: An Aer Lingus Airbus A320 / Bene Riobó, Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0
By: JBizNews Desk 🌎
An Aer Lingus passenger plane carrying 157 people from Dublin to Rome made an emergency landing at a French military air base Thursday after a bomb threat, NBC News reported.
Flight EI402 “diverted to Normandy this morning as a security precaution,” the Irish airline said, confirming the Airbus A320 landed safely. The office of French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu said the 151 passengers and six crew were moved to a safe place and a bomb squad was in place at the Évreux-Fauville Air and Space Force base.
Tracking site FlightRadar24 showed the jet cruising normally at 37,000 feet just west of Paris about an hour into the flight, then descending in a series of loops before landing at Évreux, NBC reported.
No explosive device has been found and no one has claimed responsibility. It was at least the ninth bomb threat against a flight in Europe this week, NBC reported; some flights were forced to divert and an airport in Poland briefly closed. On Tuesday, a bomb threat against an Israel-bound cruise ship triggered a security operation at the Greek port of Syros.
JBizNews Desk | London
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