A passenger plane bound for Dublin to Rome was diverted to France on Thursday after a bomb threat, the French government said. The flight was diverted to a French base at Ouro in Normandy. The situation is being monitored by the office of the French Prime Minister, Sebastien Lacornous, he added. No other information was immediately released. According to the flight tracking website Flightradar24, an Aer Lingus plane turned around near Paris and circled over the Oro region after declaring an in-flight emergency.