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Why are jet fighters scrambled to escort planes in an emergency?

<span>Photograph: Luke Hayes Photography/PA</span>
Photograph: Luke Hayes Photography/PA

When an airliner with a suspected bomb on board (or in some other emergency) is escorted to its landing site by a jet fighter, what is the fighter there for?

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