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| Passenger jet bomb threat chaos spreads across Europe as multiple flights including two from UK are forced to make emergency landings |
| 2026-11-03 |
| [DM] A series of hoax bomb threats has sparked flight chaos across Europe with multiple passenger jets forced to make emergency landings at airports across the continent. At least seven flights were targeted this morning with some forced to divert before being searched on the ground, while one Ryanair jet - from Dublin to Rome - was accompanied by an Italian fighter jet. Two of the grounded flights took off from the UK before making unscheduled landings due to the mid-air security scares. At Rome's Fiumicino airport, bomb disposal experts searched two Ryanair flights - one originating from Lisbon and the other from Dublin - following anonymous tips regarding potential bomb threats. A flight from Heathrow to Warsaw and a Ryanair service from Manchester to Murcia in southern Spain also received threats this morning. Flights from Copenhagen to Warsaw and from Bergamo to Sofia were grounded after similar threats. A Ryanair flight from Dublin to Sofia, carrying 185 passengers, received a bomb threat and was searched on arrival. It is unclear whether the incidents are connected but they come a day after a Wizz Air flight from London Luton to Bulgaria was threatened and had to be escorted by a fighter jet. |
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