Plane bomb threats false alarms

At least three airliners were forced to make emergency landings or turn back to their original airports in Chile and Peru amid what aviation officials said was a wave of false bomb threats yesterday. A Latam Airlines flight carrying passengers from Peru’s capital of Lima to Santiago, Chile, was safely evacuated after making an unscheduled landing in the southern Peruvian city of Pisco, officials said. Chile-based Latam is Latin America’s largest airline. Two planes operated by Chile-based Sky Airlines bound for Rosario, Argentina, and the northern Chilean city of Calama returned to Santiago without incident following phoned-in threats. Chile’s civil aviation agency said all three planes were inspected and it was determined there were no explosives on board.