The 167 passengers on board Ryanair Flight FR25 en route from Paris to Dublin was diverted to Glasgow’s Prestwick Airport on Wednesday after a passenger passed the captain a note saying there was a bomb on board. In a post 9-11 world this is one sure way of having your commercial flight be escorted by fighter jets to the nearest airport.

Ryanair Flight FR25, a Boeing 737 en route from Paris to Dublin, was escorted to Glasgow’s Prestwick Airport, which was closed for about two hours while army explosives experts searched the plane. No bomb was found, Strathclyde police said.

The 167 passengers and five crew were safely escorted off the plane and questioned at the airport, police said.

Later, all the passengers were allowed to continue their journey, arriving at Dublin International Airport aboard the aircraft shortly before midnight — about nine hours after the incident began, Ryanair spokeswoman Pauline McAlester said.
(USA Today)

During the incident that lasted hours, four aircraft scheduled to land at Prestwick were diverted to other airports. Authorities are trying to determine who had written the note. So far no arrests have been made.