{"id":7985,"date":"2026-11-03T18:30:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/flights-across-europe-face-disruption-after-false-bomb-threats-officials-say-national-globalnews-ca\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T18:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T18:30:53","slug":"flights-across-europe-face-disruption-after-false-bomb-threats-officials-say-national-globalnews-ca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/03\/flights-across-europe-face-disruption-after-false-bomb-threats-officials-say-national-globalnews-ca\/","title":{"rendered":"Flights across Europe face disruption after false bomb threats, officials say – National | Globalnews.ca"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Several flights across Europe received alleged bomb threats<\/a> Tuesday that ultimately turned out to be hoaxes but prompted searches, diversions and, in one case, an escort by the Italian Air Force until landing, officials said.<\/p>\n

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The impacted airlines included Polish airline LOT, Scandinavian Airlines, Wizz Air and Ryanair. The incidents came a day after a plane headed for Bulgaria was diverted to Hungary after receiving a similar bomb threat while in the air. No one was injured.<\/p>\n

Matthew Borie of Osprey Flight Solutions, which advises airlines on flight threats, laid out several hypotheses for the as-yet unexplained incidents: A single threat triggers copycat incidents; an individual or a group makes multiple threats; or operations of \u201chybrid warfare\u201d by state actors or their supporters.<\/p>\n

Such threats were \u201cnot a new phenomenon\u201d and come at a time of increased geopolitical tensions and signs of \u201cdisruption,\u201d like attacks on supermarket refrigeration systems, drone incursions in Europe and mysterious triggers to alert apps \u2014 even as authorities have warned that hybrid threats abound.<\/p>\n

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The focus on Europe means \u201cthere could be a Russian angle,\u201d said Borie, the company\u2019s co-founder and chief intelligence officer. \u201cWe need to keep in mind, though, that Iranian hybrid warfare is just as active in certain pockets of Europe as well.\u201d<\/p>\n

His message for travelers? \u201cDon\u2019t be alarmed,\u201d he said, noting \u201ccoordinated response mechanisms\u201d by national authorities \u2014 including, at times, the deployment of NATO fighter jets to escort such planes.<\/p>\n

A Ryanair flight from Lisbon landed in Rome\u2019s Fiumicino airport Tuesday morning after receipt of an email reporting a bomb was on board, according to information provided by a Fiumicino official with knowledge of the events.<\/p>\n

Police bomb disposal experts carried out security checks of passengers, crew and baggage and found no explosives.<\/p>\n

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Another email reported a bomb on another Ryanair flight to Rome, bound from Dublin.<\/p>\n

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Italy\u2019s air force escorted that plane to Fiumicino and the same ground security procedures were carried out, with no explosives found, the official said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren\u2019t authorized to speak publicly.<\/p>\n

In Poland, meanwhile, a morning flight by Polish airline LOT from London\u2019s Heathrow airport to Warsaw\u2019s main Chopin airport was diverted to the Polish capital\u2019s Modlin airport after a bomb threat, Polish press agency PAP reported. The Modlin airport was closed temporarily.<\/p>\n

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LOT later said that the search of the aircraft diverted to Modlin had been completed and that \u201cnothing was found on the aircraft.\u201d Passengers on the flight from London to Warsaw, the airline reported, were undergoing border control and, after passing through, would be transported to Chopin Airport by coach, PAP reported.<\/p>\n

The Modlin airport later posted a statement saying that there was no real threat and the airport had resumed normal operations. It did not give any further details on the nature of the threats.<\/p>\n

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Chopin Airport also received information about a potentially dangerous item on board a Scandinavian Airlines, or SAS, flight from Copenhagen to Chopin Airport, PAP reported. Acting Director of the Warsaw Airport\u2019s Communications Office, Piotr Rudzki, told the news agency that standard safety procedures were immediately implemented following the information and one of the airport\u2019s runways was closed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe passengers disembarked, the plane landed normally; it was not an emergency landing,\u201d SAS spokeswoman Alexandra Lindgren Kaokju told PAP.<\/p>\n

She added that the carrier is currently focusing on providing care to passengers and crew, and the matter has been referred to the Polish police.<\/p>\n

Spanish officials on Tuesday ruled out the presence of explosives on a Ryanair plane from Manchester that landed in southern Spain\u2019s Murcia airport following a bomb threat.<\/p>\n

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