2 Fighter Jets Escort New York-Delhi Flight After Bomb Scare
Video: 2 Fighter Jets Escort New York-Delhi Flight After Bomb ScareVisuals show fighter jets on both sides of the commercial aircraft, escorting it to Rome’s Fiumicino airport.
Video: 2 Fighter Jets Escort New York-Delhi Flight After Bomb Scare
Italian fighter jets accompany the American Airlines flight.
A Delhi-bound American Airlines flight from New York was diverted to Rome following a “bomb scare” on Sunday afternoon (local time). Two Euro fighter jets of the Italian Air Force escorted the aircraft back to safety. Visuals released by the Italian Air Force show fighter jets on both sides of the commercial aircraft, guarding it to Rome’s Fiumicino airport.
The Italian Air Force shared the visuals on social media with a caption, “#Scramble : in the afternoon two #Eurofighter of #AeronauticaMilitare took off on alert to identify and escort a commercial aircraft headed to Delhi which had reversed course towards Fiumicino airport (RM) due to a report of a presumed explosive device on board.”
“They asked us to sit down and not to roam around while the fighter jets were near us,” recalled Mahesh Kumar, an IT consultant aboard the flight, as per news agency AFP.
American Airlines flight AA292 took off from New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport on Saturday (February 22) at around 8.11 pm (local time), according to the flight tracker FlightAware. It turned around while flying over the Caspian Sea.
