Liam McGlinchey

⚠️ On Tuesday, November 3, bomb threats targeted at least seven passenger flights bound for Poland, Spain, Bulgaria and Italy. Authorities and airport sources say no explosives were found on any aircraft. No official has publicly attributed the threats to any person, group or state, and authorities have not said whether the incidents are linked. 🇵🇱 Poland. A LOT flight from London Heathrow to Warsaw Chopin, carrying 181 people, was diverted to Warsaw Modlin after what the airport called "information on an explosive device on board." Modlin said the flight was diverted at 09:54 local time and landed at 10:01. The airport closed and reopened around midday. Modlin spokesman Adam Szablowski told AFP: "Nothing was found." LOT confirmed the flight was theirs. Separately, an SAS flight from Copenhagen landed as scheduled at Warsaw Chopin and was checked. A Chopin spokesperson and SAS confirmed this, and Polish authorities said the threat was not confirmed, according to Reuters. 🇪🇦 Spain. A Ryanair flight from Manchester to Murcia received what the Telegraph described as a "written security threat." Francisco Lucas, the Spanish government's delegate in Murcia, said on X that police "ruled out the presence of explosives on the plane" and that the airport resumed normal activity. 🇧🇬 Bulgaria. Bulgarian Transport Minister Georgi Peev told reporters in Pernik that two flights to Sofia, one from Bergamo and one from Dublin, were targeted by bomb threats. He said neither aircraft was diverted, both were inspected and no explosive devices were found. He said part of the information is classified and that in the latest case the pilot was informed through the airline's channels. Earlier, Interior Ministry Secretary General Lyubomir Nikolov, quoted by BTA, said a threat was received by email and counter-terrorism units checked the aircraft. Early Reuters reporting, citing BTA, described that first Sofia flight as coming from Israel. Peev later described the flights as coming from Bergamo and Dublin. That discrepancy has not been publicly resolved. 🇭🇺 Italy. Sources at Rome Fiumicino told the BBC that two Ryanair flights, from Lisbon and from Dublin, were searched after anonymous tips, and police bomb disposal checks were negative. Italian media, including La Repubblica and Corriere della Sera, and the Anadolu news agency report that Italian Air Force fighters escorted one of the two aircraft. Reports differ on which one. We found no on-record statement from Italian police, the aviation authority ENAC or the Air Force. Context. On Monday, November 2, a Wizz Air flight from London Luton to Sofia was diverted to Budapest after a mid-air bomb threat and escorted by a Hungarian fighter, according to Hungarian Defence Minister Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi. Nikolov said the sender of that threat is still being identified, and that in earlier similar cases the emails were traced to IP addresses in other European countries. DW reports similar false alerts at European airports in recent weeks. Attribution. No one has claimed responsibility. The Telegraph notes that Poland has separately warned of an escalation in Russia's hybrid campaign against NATO allies, but no Polish or other official has tied these threats to Russia. Any state link remains speculation.