Bomb threats target multiple flights in Europe

🗞️ Story file #1301

Bomb threats target multiple flights in Europe

Nov 3, 10 AM ET to Nov 3, 11 AM ET

11outlets carried it
🫏4 · 4 · 3🐘left · center · right
1 houron the front pages
11front pages at once, at its peak

📰 read it at: HuffPost The Guardian Business Insider NBC News BBC Bloomberg Newsweek Reuters The Sun IJR Newsmax

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Nov 3, 10 AM ETfirst on a front page: HuffPost
Nov 3, 11 AM ETpeak: on 11 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

gaining fast: stories gathering like this went wide 6 times in 10 (150 stories)

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Nov 3, 10 AM to Nov 3, 11 AM ET (peak 11), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline, and a headline swapped for a new one between our hourly looks runs on to it. A gap means a look found the story gone from that front page. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Drudge Report

aggregators linking to it from their front page (they don't count as outlets covering it)

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

BBC (2 wordings): “Six flights across Europe searched after suspected bomb threats” → “Bomb threats target seven flights across Europe”
Bloomberg (2 wordings): “Series of Bomb Threats Forces Flight Diversions Across Europe” → “Bomb Threats Against Airlines Force Diversions Across Europe”
Business Insider (2 wordings): “4 separate flights in Europe have been targeted by bomb threats in the past 24 hours” → “At least 7 separate flights in Europe have been targeted by bomb threats today”

📰 Every outlet's headline 11left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost🕒 Nov 3, 10 AM ET Multiple Flights In Europe Searched, Diverted After Bomb Threats
The Guardian🕒 Nov 3, 10 AM ET Four planes flying across Europe targeted by bomb threats
Business Insider🕒 Nov 3, 10 AM ET 4 separate flights in Europe have been targeted by bomb threats in the past 24 hours
NBC News🕒 Nov 3, 11 AM ET Multiple bomb threats disrupt flights across Europe
BBC🕒 Nov 3, 10 AM ET Six flights across Europe searched after suspected bomb threats
Bloomberg🕒 Nov 3, 10 AM ET Series of Bomb Threats Forces Flight Diversions Across Europe
Newsweek🕒 Nov 3, 8 AM ET Four Flights Targeted By Suspected Bomb Threats in Europe Within Hours
Reuters🕒 Nov 3, 10 AM ET Bomb threats on flights in Europe cause disruption but no devices found
The Sun🕒 Nov 3, 10 AM ET BOMB ALERT Seven flights including two from UK targeted by bomb threats just hours apart
IJR🕒 Nov 3, 11 AM ET Four European Flights Face Suspected Bomb Threats
Newsmax🕒 Nov 3, 11 AM ET Flights across Europe Hit by Bomb Threats That Turned out to be Hoaxes

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺🤷 No TV captions or radio newscasts matched to it yet. It may still get there, or our matchers missed it.

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ Names in it

Europe

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.

Bomb threats target multiple flights in Europe

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