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Illustrative: El Al planes, parked at the Ben Gurion Airport in Lod, Israel, on August 03, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
Fighter jets were summoned to accompany an El Al plane over Greece on Friday after a bomb threat was reported mid-flight, according to a television report.
Flight LY02 departed for Tel Aviv from New York on Thursday afternoon. After takeoff, US authorities received a phone call warning there was a bomb on the plane, Channel 12 reported on Saturday.
“I’m telling you there’s a bomb on the plane,” the caller said.
Though the warning was considered dubious, the pilot, Israeli security agencies, and the countries whose airspace was on the flight path were alerted, the report said.