Photographs: Fighter Jets Escort American Airways Aircraft After Bomb Menace

• A mid-flight bomb hoax led Italy’s air power to scramble jets to escort an American Airways airplane.
• The Boeing 787 was flying from New York to Delhi when the menace occurred.
• Italy’s Aeronautica Militare launched a collection of photographs of the incident unfolding.

American Airways passengers had a whirlwind journey after a bomb menace noticed their flight flip round, and fighter jets scrambled to escort the airplane.

The airline stated the “doable safety concern” was later discovered to be “non-credible.”

Saturday night’s Flight 292 from New York to India’s capital, New Delhi, U-turned over the Caspian Sea — greater than 10 hours after taking off, in response to information from Flightradar24.

It then spent round 4 hours going again towards Italy, the place the nation’s air power scrambled two Eurofighter jets.

In a press launch, the Aeronautica Militare stated it escorted the Boeing 787 to Rome Fiumicino Airport after a “bomb alert.”

It additionally shared pictures of the Eurofighters following the airliner, in addition to a video.

American Airways stated the flight landed safely in Rome, and “legislation enforcement inspected and cleared the plane to re-depart.”

“Security and safety are our high priorities and we apologize to our prospects for the inconvenience,” it added.

The Boeing 787 landed in Rome round 4 p.m. native time on Sunday. The identical airplane is scheduled to fly from Rome to New Delhi at 6 a.m. ET on Tuesday, per Flightradar24.

A senior official briefed on the matter informed ABC Information a bomb menace was acquired by electronic mail.

Protocol at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi Worldwide Airport required an inspection earlier than the airplane might land there, American Airways stated.

The incident is the newest in a string of bomb threats on planes flying to or in India in current months.

India’s deputy civil aviation minister, Murlidhar Mohol, stated that as of mid-November, there had been 999 hoax bomb threats within the nation in 2024.

Greater than 500 of these have been acquired throughout two weeks, and 12 individuals have been arrested.

Final October, Singapore’s Air Pressure scrambled two F-15s to escort an Air India Categorical flight, which landed safely.

The identical month, an Air India flight from New Delhi to Chicago made an emergency touchdown in Canada’s Nunavut territory after one other bomb menace.

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