More than a dozen flights throughout Europe were disrupted early this Thursday due to bomb threats. Among the affected services was a Ryanair flight operating on the London Stansted–Bulgaria route, scheduled to land in the capital Sofia but diverted to Plovdiv, according to data from Flightradar24.
Many of the mentioned flights have already landed safely, and inspections conducted have not found explosives or suspicious objects aboard the aircraft. By 11:20, at least 15 flights across the continent had received alerts related to bomb threats. These incidents come just two days after multiple flights, including one departing from Heathrow and another from Manchester, were targeted by similar alerts, with the UK government labeling those cases as “malicious hoax threats”. According to Czech authorities, four unpublished flights have also received threats, and those planes were preparing for landing; authorities assessed the relevance of the threats as low, with post-landing pyrotechnic inspections to follow.
Here is the complete list of flights that have received bomb threats up to this point on Thursday:
- EI-DEH Aer Lingus: flight from Dublin to Rome, diverted to Evreux, France. - FR6410 Ryanair: flight from Madrid to Sofia. - FR3606 Ryanair: flight from Copenhagen to Sofia. - FR1730 Ryanair: flight from London Stansted to Sofia, diverted to Plovdiv. - LO235 LOT Polish Airlines: flight from Warsaw to Brussels. - W46387 WizzAir: flight from Milan Malpensa to Warsaw-Okęcie, diverted to Vienna. - AY1761 FinnAir: flight from Helsinki to Rome Fiumicino. - AY 1471 FinnAir: flight from Helsinki to Vienna. - WMT3064 WizzAir: flight from Milan to Bucharest. - A3552 Aegean Airlines: flight from Thessaloniki to Milan. - FR8953 Ryanair: flight from Porto to Milan. - Four unspecified flights to Prague.
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