Bomb threat alerts disrupt four European flights

Four European flights faced bomb threats on Tuesday, prompting the temporary closure of Warsaw’s Chopin airport, yet all aircraft landed safely without any explosives detected, confirmed authorities. Two bomb warnings specifically targeted flights bound for Warsaw: one SAS Scandinavian Airlines flight from Copenhagen and another operated by Polish airline LOT from London’s Heathrow airport.

Additionally, a third incident saw Spain’s Aena activate an emergency protocol for a Ryanair flight from Manchester to Murcia due to a bomb alert. Similarly, a Wizz Air flight from Bergamo, Italy, was inspected upon landing in Sofia, Bulgaria, after receiving a bomb threat. This series of events follows a similar scenario on Monday when fighter jets were deployed to divert a Wizz Air flight from London’s Luton airport to Sofia, which had to make an emergency landing in Budapest.

Despite the bomb threats, the Ryanair flight from Manchester to Murcia landed safely in Spain. Scandinavian Airlines affirmed that a threat had been made against flight SK751 from Copenhagen to Warsaw, but the aircraft landed normally and passengers disembarked. The LOT flight, which was also scheduled for Warsaw, was diverted to Warsaw Modlin, another airport, where it too landed safely after undergoing security checks.

Both airports subsequently reopened and resumed normal operations. Hungarian Defense Minister Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi disclosed that NATO’s air defense alert service had issued an alert for the Wizz Air flight from Luton, prompting Hungarian fighter jets to escort the plane safely to Budapest. In a separate incident from Sunday, a bomb threat led to an Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna rerouting to Bulgaria, with no explosives discovered upon landing.