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ROME - A British passenger plane operated by low-cost airline Excel was diverted to the southern Italian airport of Brindisi because of a bomb scare on Friday, the Italian air force and emergency services said. “An Italian air force jet fighter from Sicily was despatched to escort the plane to Brindisi were it landed at 1531 local time (1331 GMT),” the air force official told Reuters.
The plane was flying from LondonÂ’s Gatwick airport to Egypt when the pilot contacted air traffic controllers in Zagreb, who diverted him to Brindisi in Italy, an Italian air force official said. | I suspect we'll see the international airlines flooded with these, both as probes and as a way to exhaust security ahead of some real attack attempt. |
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