Italian F16 jet fighters forced a plane flying from the Spanish holiday island of Ibiza with 70 passengers to land at a closed military airport because of a bomb scare that turned out to be false, a dispatcher with the airport's carabinieri military police said. The report turned out to be a false alarm, the dispatcher said, according to AP. The plane was allowed to land at the military airport of Ciampino, the passengers were evacuated, and a search did not yield anything dangerous. The airport had been closed because of the incident and was reopened to the public about three hours later, the dispatcher said. The alarm was apparently raised by an anonymous tip to air traffic controllers in another country, who in turn notified Italian authorities, according to ANSA and Apcom news agencies. The alarm was raised a day after three bomb blasts killed 88 people in the Red Sea resort of Sharm-el-Sheik in Egypt. Earlier Sunday, a dozen Italian tourists wounded in the bombings in Egypt landed in Ciampino, where they were greeted by anxious relatives.
