Multiple European flights face bomb threats for second time this week
What happened
Bomb threats sent by email targeted about twenty aircraft across Europe on Thursday, the second such wave in two days, ANSA reported.
Bulgaria's Interior Ministry said three Ryanair flights bound for Sofia were threatened; planes from Copenhagen and Madrid landed at Vasil Levski Airport, and the London flight was diverted to Plovdiv.
An Aer Lingus Dublin-Rome plane landed at the Evreux air base in northern France, and air force jets escorted a Finnair flight from Helsinki to Rome, according to MyJoyOnline.
Bulgarian MiG-29 fighters took off to escort three flights, ANSA said; no dangerous items have been reported found on the Bulgaria-bound planes.
The Italian-language email, signed by what ANSA described as 'Fighters of the Masculine State', a name tied to the Russian ultranationalist, misogynist movement 'Muzhskoye Gosudarstvo', threatened an explosion within 60 minutes.
French prosecutor Rémi Coutin opened an inquiry after the Aer Lingus captain reportedly first refused to land at the military base, preferring a civilian airport; the pilot will be heard before any decision on detention.
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- 2026-11-05 09:44 UTCNovinite · novinite.com ↗
- 2026-11-05 10:53 UTCCBC · cbc.ca ↗
- 2026-11-05 11:23 UTCMyJoyOnline · myjoyonline.com ↗
- 2026-11-05 11:40 UTCANSA · ansa.it ↗
- 2026-11-05 12:03 UTCThe Local Sweden · thelocal.se ↗
- 2026-11-05 12:03 UTCThe Local Norway · thelocal.no ↗
- 2026-11-05 12:03 UTCThe Local Switzerland · thelocal.ch ↗
- 2026-11-05 17:39 UTCBBC · bbc.co.uk ↗
- 2026-11-06 07:39 UTCAfrican Manager · africanmanager.com ↗
- 2026-11-06 10:16 UTCGuardian · theguardian.com ↗
- 2026-11-06 12:48 UTCDW · dw.com ↗
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