A passenger plane en route from Dublin to Rome has been diverted to a French airbase after a bomb threat was reported

A Dublin-to-Rome passenger flight operated by Aer Lingus was diverted mid-flight to a military air base in northern France after a bomb threat was reported on board, according to multiple outlets compiling coverage of the incident. The diversion occurred while the aircraft was en route between Ireland and Italy, with authorities redirecting the flight to a French facility as part of standard security procedures responding to the threat. The available material does not specify the aircraft type or the flight number in every report, though some sources identify the service as Aer Lingus and describe the routing to Evreux/Northern France.

French authorities confirmed that the aircraft diverted to a French air base as a precautionary security measure. Euronews and Cyprus Mail both cite the office of French official Sébastien Lecornu and state that the situation was being monitored as it unfolded, with the French prime minister’s office involved in流 the developing coverage. The reports emphasize that investigators and security teams were actively managing the incident as it developed, without providing details on any immediate injuries or the final status of passengers and crew at that time.

Anadolu Ajansı described the diversion within a broader wave of bomb-threat disruptions affecting Rome-area arrivals, noting that two flights arriving in Rome were disrupted and that emergency-response procedures were triggered. Investigators conducted searches of the aircraft and surrounding areas with bomb disposal teams, but no explosives or suspicious devices were found. Several outlets linked this incident to a wider European pattern of threats and checks impacting multiple flights on the same day.

Information from Cyprus Mail specifies that the diverted Dublin-to-Rome flight, reported as an Airbus A320 in that outlet’s account, diverted to Evreux Air Base in northern France after the bomb alert. The report again references the office of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu and indicates monitoring of the developing situation, but does not provide further threat details or passenger outcomes. Euronews corroborates the diversion to a French air base in northern France and reiterates the monitoring by authorities.

Newstalk’s coverage and corroborating outlets describe a broader security operation affecting seven aircraft on the same day, with the Aer Lingus Dublin-to-Rome service among those diverted to a northern French air base. The broadcaster emphasizes the chain of security checks and the mid-flight rerouting as part of a coordinated response to bomb-threat warnings, though it does not disclose aircraft specifics or flight numbers in its summary.

The Times of India connected the Dublin-to-Rome disruption to a larger cluster of European bomb-threat incidents, noting that a London-originating leg of the same disruption was diverted to Warsaw-Modlin Airport for an emergency landing. The London-bound flight carried 181 passengers and landed at Modlin at 10:01 am local time, with security services on site and bomb-disposal personnel en route; Modlin Airport was later closed for checks. This broader context situates the Dublin-to-Rome diversion within a continent-wide security response, though it does not provide precise details about the Aer Lingus flight’s aircraft type or flight number.

France 24 offered a Europe-wide perspective, reporting that bomb threats affected at least 10 European carriers and four Ryanair flights in the same wave of incidents. The network described safety checks that found no explosives and noted that involved aircraft completed their journeys and landed safely in various European cities. It also highlighted actions such as temporary airport closures in some locations and the dispatch or presence of security personnel in response to the threats, without detailing injuries or how each flight concluded.

RTE.ie cited Aer Lingus and Irish reporting to confirm that the Dublin-to-Rome service diverted to Evreux Air Base during the flight and characterized the event as a security alert prompting rerouting to a French airfield. The Irish broadcaster described the incident as occurring mid-flight on the way to Rome but did not provide specifics on aircraft type, flight number, or passenger outcomes in its summary, aligning with other sources that focused on the procedural security response rather than operational details.