A Scandinavian Airlines plane from Copenhagen lands in Warsaw after receiving a bomb threat on Tuesday. Photograph: Piotr Bozyk/ReutersA Scandinavian Airlines plane from Copenhagen lands in Warsaw after receiving a bomb threat on Tuesday. Photograph: Piotr Bozyk/ReutersFour planes flying across Europe targeted by bomb threatsFlights from London, Manchester, Copenhagen and Israel affected but no explosives found after touchdown
Four planes have landed safely after bomb threats were made across Europe, including for two flights that departed from the UK, according to reports.
Polish officials said they had received bomb threats involving two Warsaw-bound flights, but the planes landed safely and no explosives were found.
The bomb warnings also targeted a Scandinavian Airlines flight from Copenhagen and a plane from London Heathrow operated by the Polish airline LOT.
Elsewhere, the BBC reported that a Ryanair plane from Manchester made an emergency landing at Murcia in southern Spain after another threat and a fourth flight from Israel was forced to land in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Francisco Lucas, the Spanish government’s delegate in the region, said on X that no explosives were found on the flight that landed in Murcia.
The separate incidents came the day after a Wizz Air service from London Luton made an emergency landing in Budapest, escorted by a Hungarian fighter jet.
The plane, which was due to depart from Luton at 8.15am on Monday for Sofia, was diverted after a bomb threat was received “during the flight”, Wizz Air said.
A Wizz Air plane in Budapest on Monday night after being diverted because of a bomb threat on its way from London Luton to Sofia. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Scandinavian Airlines plane landed at Warsaw’s Chopin airport, where it had a security inspection that did not turn up any explosive devices.
The airport closed a landing strip but was able to continue operating, a spokesperson said.
The LOT flight, which had also been scheduled to arrive at Chopin, was diverted to the Polish capital’s other airport, Modlin. Authorities closed that airport after the alert and the Boeing 737 MAX landed without incident.
“The passengers were evacuated and the plane underwent security checks. Nothing was found,” spokesperson Adam Szablowski told AFP. “The airport has been reopened and is operating normally.”
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