Terror gripped the skies above Europe after a series of bomb threats forced at least eight passenger jets to make emergency landings in 24 hours.
A flurry of hoax calls on Tuesday morning sparked flight chaos across the continent, with planes grounded in Italy, Spain, Bulgaria and Poland.
Two jets from the UK, flying out of London Heathrow and Manchester, were among those caught up in the mayhem. A third was disrupted a day earlier by a similar threat.
One of the planes hit on Tuesday, a LOT Polish Airlines flight from Heathrow to Warsaw Chopin Airport, was packed with Jewish schoolchildren from London
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