EU agencies pledge to monitor, offer support after bomb threats to European flights-Xinhua - 新华网

BRUSSELS, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) -- The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) said Thursday it would continue to monitor developments and assess potential aviation safety implications following bomb threats against multiple passenger aircraft in Europe.

In an emailed response to Xinhua, EASA said it would "continue to monitor these developments to identify and assess any potential aviation safety implications arising from such security threats."

Claire Georges, Deputy Spokesperson of the EU's law enforcement agency Europol, told Xinhua in an email on the same day that the agency stood ready to support national authorities, at their request, where threats were linked to serious organised crime or terrorism, including by facilitating information exchange and identifying possible links across countries.

More than a dozen passenger flights across Europe received bomb threats on Thursday, forcing several aircraft to divert and prompting security checks at airports in multiple countries, according to local media reports and airline statements. ■