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El Al flight lands safely in Tel Aviv after hoax bomb threat
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleAn El Al flight at the center of a hoax bomb threat lands safely in Tel Aviv.
Swiss media says the fake warning led the country to scramble military jets to accompany the flight, which took off from New York, as it passed through Bern’s airspace.
The planes were deployed after American authorities received an anonymous bomb threat, Israel’s Foreign Ministry says. The bomb was said to have been smuggled aboard and hidden in the plane’s kitchen.
The US officials informed their Swiss counterparts as the plane entered Swiss airspace, but a careful search of the plane soon revealed that the call was a hoax.
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