European flights hit with multiple bomb threats

Scares across Europe today, a series of bomb threats impacting dozens of flights across the continent. Jeff Paul is in London with more on these dangerous hoaxes. For the second time this week, European air travel is seeing major disruptions because of multiple bomb threats across the continent. The threats targeted at least 14 flights, prompting diversions and emergency landings. An alert has been declared. A command center is being set up to make the necessary decisions. In response to one of the threats, Italian fighter jets were scrambled to escort a flight traveling from Helsinki. So far, there have been no explosives found on any of the planes. There was a bomb threat. No explosive device was actually found. There is no danger whatsoever. I can tell people to be calm about our skies. It's not clear who's behind these threats, but intelligence agencies are said to be taking them seriously. Though experts point out it's difficult to stop this kind of campaign when all it takes is a phone call or an email. It's more disruptive than it is anything of actual kinetic attack. We'll Concern, so they can happen very, very randomly. Some are suggesting adversaries like Russia be or Iran could be behind the threats. There have been Iranian hybrid warfare incidents related right to aviation, the RAF Fairford plot. For example, there have been plenty of Iranian cyber campaigns around aviation and hacking incidents related to aviation entities. back. And so we're looking as well at that. And that's something the Trump administration has warned about in the past. Escalation can take the form of... Irregular attacks or irregular events, we're watching that closely. Right now the UK government is describing the incidents as quote malicious hoax threats. In London, Jeff Paul, Fox News.