Hoax bomb threats target European airlines and airports for second time in a week

Image source, ReutersImage caption, The Aer Lingus plane at Evreux military air base in France after being diverted following a bomb threat.

• Publicado em 5 de novembro de 2026, 09:50 GMT.
• Who could be behind hoax bomb threats to European air travel?Published3 hours ago.
• Two Finnair flights from Helsinki landed at their destinations as normal, the airline said. One was escorted into Rome's Fiumicino airport by Italian Air Force fighter jets, Aeroporti di Roma told the BBC, while the other landed in Vienna, Austria.
• Wizz Air said two flights which departed Milan were affected - one was heading to Warsaw, before being diverting to Vienna; the other landed safely in Bucharest, with teams inspecting the aircraft.
• Polish airline LOT said its flight from Warsaw to Brussels landed as planned, and "no suspicious items were found". Another LOT flight from Warsaw to Paris was stopped before take-off and the plane and baggage underwent a security screening, with no hazardous items found.
• No explosives were found on four flights which landed in Prague, Czech police said. EasyJet later said its flights from Newcastle and Glasgow were among those affected. "Passengers on both flights disembarked normally," the company said.
• A Ryanair flight from Porto in Portugal landed safely in Milan as planned, with bomb disposal experts checking them on arrival, Italy's Ansa news agency reported.
• Spain's airport authority said it had received bomb threats affecting three flights at Madrid airport, but any threat was ruled out following inspections. Iberia later said two of its flights - Milan-Madrid and Rome-Madrid - were affected. It was not clear whether the third plane was the above reported Ryanair Madrid to Sofia flight.
• Air Serbia said its flight from Belgrade to Bucharest "landed safely at its destination airport", and after checks, a reported bomb threat was "assessed as unfounded.

Aer Lingus informou que seu voo de Dublin para Roma desviou para a Normandia, aterrissando com segurança. A companhia acrescentou que está trabalhando para 'reacomodar os clientes em seu destino final o mais rápido possível.

Três voos da Ryanair pousaram na Bulgária, segundo a mídia búlgara – um de Copenhague e outro de Madrid pousaram na capital Sofia, enquanto um terceiro vindo de Londres com destino a Sofia pousou em Plovdiv.

Os voos foram escoltados por caças da Força Aérea Búlgara.

Aegean Airlines disse que foi “informada de uma ameaça de bomba” envolvendo dois de seus voos de Tessalônica, na Grécia, para Milão, e também de Atenas para Viena.

A companhia afirmou que a ameaça era “sem fundamento” e que ambos os voos partiram dos respectivos aeroportos.

Sete voos em toda a Europa foram alvo de suspeitas de ameaça de bomba. Publicado há 2 dias.

At least 21 aircraft and several airports across Europe have been targeted by bomb threats in the second such incident this week, with the UK calling it a "malicious hoax.

Flights to Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, France, Italy, Poland and Romania were affected. An Aer Lingus plane from Dublin to Rome was diverted to an air base in France and Italian fighter jets escorted Finnair's Helsinki-Rome flight.

EasyJet said its flights from Newcastle and Glasgow were met by police in Prague as a precaution. London Heathrow and Birmingham airports received threats that were assessed as not credible.

Nenhum explosivo foi encontrado durante as buscas, e não está claro se os incidentes, alguns reivindicados por um grupo pouco conhecido, estão relacionados.

As autoridades aeroportuárias na capital da Itália, Roma, disseram que a ameaça falsa contra dois voos de chegada recebida na quinta-feira foi enviada por e-mail.

The warnings were signed on behalf of a group or individual calling themselves "Fighters of the Male State", claiming to be targeting a "feminist regime" and wanting to "make our mark on history.

Eles ameaçaram 'tornar os céus vermelhos' com explosões.

These details were first reported by Italian media and then confirmed to the BBC by Aeroporti di Roma, which manages both of the city airports.

Os Combatentes do Estado Masculino" provavelmente se refere ao grupo russo "Muzhskoi Legion" ("Legião Masculina") - um grupo ultra-direito com visões tão extremas que foi banido por um tribunal de Moscou em 2021.

Yet it retained tens of thousands of online followers as it cheered on the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in the following year.

But that email, even if genuine, is unlikely to provide the leads that police and airport authorities need to pin down who is generating these hoaxes and why.

Legenda da figura, secretário de transporte do Reino Unido diz que voos foram atingidos por 'ameaças de farsa.

UK Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander described Thursday's incidents as "malicious hoax threats.

Ela disse que o governo estava levando "estas ameaças a sério", enfatizando que havia "processos estabelecidos para lidar com boatos e ameaças maliciosas.

A UK government spokesperson later said the threats reported "in the early hours" of the day had been "resolved", without giving any further details.

Heathrow later said in a statement it had received a threat earlier in the day which was "deemed not credible", adding there was "no risk to passengers, colleagues or the aircraft.

There are robust UK aviation security standards in place to assess and safely manage these types of situations," the statement said.

Meanwhile, a Birmingham Airport spokesperson told the BBC it had received a threat, after which "processes were immediately initiated in conjunction with emergency services and partners.

Os seguintes voos foram alvo de ameaças na quinta-feira.

Emily Noble, who was aboard the diverted Aer Lingus plane from Dublin to Rome, said she was about an hour into her flight to attend a friend's wedding in the Italian capital when passengers were told about a "technical" problem.

Mais tarde, enquanto o avião da Aer Lingus começou a circular em busca de um pouso não planejado na França, o piloto disse que havia um problema de “security”, o 26‑ano de Dublin contou à BBC Verify.

A bordo foi “uma experiência estranha”, disse Noble. “Foi preocupante porque não sabíamos o que estava acontecendo, mas todos tentávamos ficar o mais calmos possível.”.

Noble says she could hear fighter jets during the landing and saw one touch down behind the aircraft.

After landing at the Évreux-Fauville air base in Normandy, passengers learned the flight had been the subject of a bomb threat.

Image source, Emily NobleImage caption, Emily Noble, a passenger on a diverted Aer Lingus flight, told the BBC she was now waiting for transfer to Rome at an air base in France.

Noble afirmou que permaneceram a bordo por duas horas e meia enquanto a polícia e o pessoal militar realizavam verificações, incluindo buscas com cães farejadores.

The passengers were later told they would be taken to an airport in Paris and another plane would fly them on to Rome.

Philip Baum, professor of aviation security at the University of Coventry, said the industry "faces multiple bomb threats every single day" but he had been "surprised" by this week's incidents.

A flight is diverted "only when the threat is credible and the authorities believe there is a potential of explosive device on board", he said.

He said the concern was that "if you issue enough hoax threats, then complacency could set in and a real threat could be ignored - or they could be a diversion.

Marco Chan, an aviation expert at Kingston University, told the BBC the threats were "most likely a hoax, but the system is right to treat it as real.

Ele disse que eles estavam sendo vistos por alguns especialistas como “possivelmente parte de um padrão de perturbação barata e que pode ser negada” para a aviação.

Mentiras também podem vir de imitadores, disse ele, mas “três dias de incidentes é uma amostra muito pequena para separar coordenação de contágio”.

Há dois dias, sete voos europeus, incluindo dois do Reino Unido, foram escaneados após ameaças de bomba. Nenhum explosivo foi encontrado em nenhum dos aviões após as buscas.

On Monday, a Wizz Air flight travelling from London Luton Airport to Sofia was escorted by a Hungarian fighter jet to Budapest after a mid-air bomb threat.

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