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, 1 PM ET

14outlets carried it
🫏4 · 6 · 4🐘left · center · right
3 hourson the front pages
14front pages at once, at its peak
49 sof TV captions

📰 read it at: HuffPost The Guardian Business Insider NBC News BBC Bloomberg Financial Times Forbes Newsweek Reuters The Sun Breitbart 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, 10 AM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Nov 3, 12 PM ETpeak: on 14 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, 1 PM ET (peak 14), 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.

💬 Quoted

“malicious hoax”1

phrases its headlines put in quotation marks; the bar is how many outlets did

📌 Linked by aggregators

1 Drudge Report

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

✏️ 5 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

BBC (3 wordings): “Six flights across Europe searched after suspected bomb threats” → “Seven flights across Europe targeted by suspected bomb threats”
Bloomberg (2 wordings): “Series of Bomb Threats Forces Flight Diversions Across Europe” → “Bomb Threats Against Airlines Force Diversions Across Europe”
Business Insider (3 wordings): “4 separate flights in Europe have been targeted by bomb threats in the past 24 hours” → “Several flights in Europe have been targeted by bomb threats today. Here's what we know.”
Reuters (3 wordings): “Bomb threats on flights in Europe cause disruption but no devices found” → “FACTBOX Europe-wide bomb threats disrupt air travel”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “Four planes flying across Europe targeted by bomb threats” → “Seven planes across Europe searched or diverted after ‘malicious hoax’ bomb threats”

📰 Every outlet's headline 14left 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
Financial Times🕒 Nov 3, 12 PM ET Seven aircraft grounded in Europe after bomb threats
Forbes🕒 Nov 3, 12 PM ET Wave Of Bomb Threats Target 6 European Flights
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
Breitbart🕒 Nov 3, 12 PM ET Flights Across Europe Grounded Over Rash of Bomb Threats…
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

center

minutes its captions were on screen, by channel; the disc is the network's lean

⚖️ BBC News 49 s

hourly newscasts that carried it, by show; beside the count, how often it was the lead story, or the highest it came in the running order

📻🤷 No radio newscast matched to 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

📰 Spread

📡 Broadcast

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📻 On the radio

🧶 Retelling

🔎 Checking

🧵 Persistence