Bomb Threats Hit Four Passenger Planes Across Europe; All Land Safely

Four passenger planes flying across Europe were targeted by bomb threats on November 3, 2026, and all four landed safely, The Guardian reported.

Two of the flights were bound for Warsaw. Polish officials said no explosives were found on either of them. A Scandinavian Airlines flight from Copenhagen landed at Warsaw's Chopin airport, where a security inspection found no explosive devices. A LOT flight from London Heathrow, which was scheduled to arrive at Chopin, was diverted to Modlin Airport, north of the capital, and landed without incident.

The other two planes landed in different countries. A Ryanair flight from Manchester made an emergency landing at Murcia in southern Spain after a bomb threat, and no explosives were found on board. A flight from Israel was forced to land in Sofia, Bulgaria, after a bomb threat. An emergency landing is an unplanned landing at the nearest suitable airport, usually made when a pilot judges that the aircraft needs to come down quickly.

According to the BBC, two of the four planes had departed from the UK. Those were the LOT flight from Heathrow and the Ryanair flight from Manchester.

The threats were not confined to November 3. On November 2, a Wizz Air service from London Luton to Sofia made an emergency landing in Budapest after a bomb threat. It was escorted by a Hungarian fighter jet, a military aircraft sent to accompany a plane that may need guidance or monitoring in the air.