FIGHTER jets have been scrambled following reports of a bomb threat on a Ryanair flight carrying 190 passengers to Greece. The Greek F-16s escorted the Ryanair plane from Katowice in Poland as a pr…
and firefighters surrounded the plane after it landed at a remote spot at the airport and was inspected by the bomb squad, ANA, a Greek news agency, reported.
The Greek fighter jets intercepted the plane as it entered Greek airspace above North Macedonia, the Greek Defence Ministry said.It is unclear where the origin of the bomb threat came from but it is thought to have been made shortly after the plane left Poland.
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