Seven flights across Europe inspected after suspected bomb threats

Seven passenger planes across Europe, two of them departing from the UK, were inspected after anonymous bomb threats, including two Ryanair flights searched in Rome, with no explosives reported found, according to BBC News.

BBC NewsFlights from UK airports among seven across Europe targeted by suspected bomb threatsPlanes in Poland, Spain, Bulgaria and Italy have been checked for explosives following separate threats.

Authorities have not officially linked the incidents, but are co-operating to assess whether they were a coordinated attempt to disrupt airspace: what would it take to tell a coordinated campaign from a run of unrelated hoaxes?