Bomb threats hit several European flights; no explosives found on any plane

Several flights across Europe received bomb threats on Tuesday, November 3, 2026, but all turned out to be hoaxes and no explosives were found, officials said. Polish authorities said they inspected two Warsaw-bound planes: an SAS Scandinavian Airlines flight from Copenhagen, which landed at Warsaw's Chopin airport, and a LOT flight from London's Heathrow, which was diverted to Warsaw-Modlin. Passengers at Modlin were evacuated, and the airport spokesman, Adam Szablowski, said nothing was found and the airport reopened around midday. A landing strip at Chopin was closed, but the airport kept operating. A Ryanair flight from Manchester to Murcia, Spain, also received a threat, landed safely and was checked after passengers disembarked; Francisco Lucas, the Spanish government's delegate in Murcia, said police ruled out explosives. Wizz Air was also affected, and in one case the Italian Air Force escorted a plane until landing. No one was injured. On Sunday, a threat forced an Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna to reroute to Bulgaria, and a day before Tuesday a plane bound for Bulgaria was diverted to Hungary after a similar threat. It was not immediately clear whether the incidents were linked.

The right-leaning New York Post leads with the Europe-wide scale, naming LOT, SAS, Wizz Air and Ryanair, and gives most space to Matthew Borie of Osprey Flight Solutions. He floated copycat threats, one person or group behind several, or hybrid warfare by state actors, saying there could be a Russian angle but that Iranian activity is also present. It links the threats to drone incursions and other disruption, and relays his advice to travelers not to be alarmed. Alternative outlets The Hindu and Deutsche Welle focus on the Polish airport disruptions, quoting Szablowski and, in DW's case, Lucas, and say nothing of hybrid warfare or state involvement; DW stresses that links are unclear. All agree that no explosives were found and no one was hurt. Left-leaning outlets had not reported this story at the time of writing, while the other two sides had.