A passenger aircraft travelling from Dublin to Rome was diverted to France yesterday after a bomb threat.
This is reported by the BBC.
The flight was directed to a French base in Évreux (Normandy). The government added that the situation is being monitored by the office of France’s Minister of the Armed Forces, Sébastien Lecornu.
No further details have been released so far.
According to the Flightradar24 flight-tracking service, the Aer Lingus aircraft turned back near Paris and began circling in the Évreux area after the crew declared an emergency on board.
Aer Lingus flight #EI402 (Dublin - Rome) is diverting to Evreux Fauville Air Base, with squawk 7700. https://t.co/acg3BCwzKM
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) November 5, 2026
According to officials, the incident came a day after at least seven flights and one cruise ship in Europe received bomb threats on Tuesday, causing disruption at airports. However, no explosive devices were found.
The affected flights were operated by LOT, Scandinavian Airlines, Wizz Air and Ryanair. The threats came a day after a plane bound for Bulgaria was diverted to Hungary after receiving a similar bomb threat mid-flight. No one was injured.
Such threats are not new, but they tend to emerge during periods of heightened geopolitical tension and signs of “destabilisation”, such as attacks on supermarket cooling systems, drone incursions in Europe and mysterious alert-app triggers — even as authorities have warned about the prevalence of hybrid threats.
- It was previously reported that Europe will investigate whether the bomb threats against aircraft were a co-ordinated attack. Officially, a link between the bomb-threat reports has not yet been confirmed.