A 15-year-old British boy has been charged with making bomb hoaxes to airlines in the US and the UK over the past year.
Police have charged the teenager under section 51 of the Criminal Law Act over allegations of bomb hoaxes.
He has also been charged with three offences under section 3 of the UK Computer Misuse Act, relating to cyber attacks on websites around the world.
The teenager from Plymouth, England, cannot be named because he is under 16, but it is believed his actions cost at least one company in the US a large amount of money and disrupted air travel.
His cyber attacks relate to denial of service attacks on websites in Europe, North America and elsewhere, which involved overwhelming a website with traffic, often forcing it to come offline.
The teenager was charged yesterday, before the two Air France flights bound for Paris were diverted following hoax bomb calls.
The teenager will appear in court on December 18.
