Multiple airlines including Ryanair, Finnair, and Wizz Air enacted precautionary landings and diversions on Thursday morning following anonymous threats. Security teams and pyrotechnic specialists swept all 15 affected aircraft and found no explosive materials on board. Italian investigators revealed that messages directed at Rome-bound flights came via an anonymous Italian-language email sent directly to the local airport management company. These disruptions coincided with separate cyber incidents affecting supermarket refrigeration systems and unauthorized drone activity across the continent.
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Aviation specialists assess that the unusually high volume of simultaneous threats indica…: Aviation specialists assess that the unusually high volume of simultaneous threats indicates a coordinated campaign to disrupt European transport.
The flight hoaxes emerged amid concurrent hybrid threats, including drone incursions and…: The flight hoaxes emerged amid concurrent hybrid threats, including drone incursions and cyber-attacks on supermarket refrigeration networks.
Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov dismissed allegations connecting Russia to the recent…: Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov dismissed allegations connecting Russia to the recent supermarket cyber disruptions as absurd and baseless.
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Bomb threats have caused diversions and emergency landings for at least 15 flights across Europe, renewing questions about a possibly coordinated effort to disrupt travel.
The series of warnings on Thursday morning affected flights between Italy, Ireland, the UK, Spain, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Finland, Austria, Denmark, Belgium, Portugal, Greece and Czechia.
On Tuesday seven planes across Europe were searched or diverted because of malicious hoax bomb alerts. On Monday a flight from the UK to Bulgaria was diverted after a threat that was apparently without substance.
The latest alerts affected flights by Ryanair, Aer Lingus, Wizz Air, Finnair and LOT. All landed safely. Initial searches of some of the planes found nothing suspicious.
Two Ryanair flights from Copenhagen and Madrid to Sofia made emergency landings in the Bulgarian capital while a Ryanair flight from London to Sofia was diverted and landed at Plovdiv, Bulgaria’s second largest city.
A Bulgarian government spokesperson said: “Upon landing, the necessary inspections were carried out in accordance with the applicable procedures and no issues were identified. Airport operations at both Sofia airport and Plovdiv airport…
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