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The airport had received all the threats

November 5, 2026

According to ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation and ABC News (Australia), Prague Airport spokeswoman Denisa Hejtmankova said the airport had received all the threats in emails from anonymous addresses.

RTÉ reports that on November 2, a Wizz Air flight from London's Luton airport to Sofia was diverted due a bomb threat and forced to make an emergency stop in Budapest. According to ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation and ABC News (Australia), two Easyjet flights from Britain, one flight from Ireland and one from Greece landed as scheduled in Prague after receiving bomb threats, Czech police said. According to CBS News, a second Wizz Air flight bound for Bucharest also landed safely after being targeted, Reuters reported Romanian intelligence as saying.

According to ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation and ABC News (Australia), Prague Airport spokeswoman Denisa Hejtmankova said the airport had received all the threats in emails from anonymous addresses. A Finnair aircraft sits on the tarmac at Fiumicino Airport in Fiumicino, near Rome, Italy, on November 5, 2026, after a Finnair flight from Helsinki was escorted to its scheduled landing by Italian Air Force jets following bomb threats that forced airliners to make unplanned landings across Europe, Fox News reports. Wizz Air aircraft sit on the tarmac at Milan Malpensa Airport in Ferno, Italy on November 5, 2026, New York Post reports. After a flight from Dublin to Rome was diverted to France on Thursday, an Aer Lingus Airbus A320 aircraft is seen at Evreux military air base, The Globe and Mail reports. According to New York Post, Polish authorities checked a LOT flight that was about to depart from Warsaw to Paris on Thursday morning after a threat was reported at Warsaw’s Chopin Airport, said airport spokesman Piotr Rudzki. British authorities dismissed threats to about seven flights earlier this week as hoaxes, but the number of impacted journeys soared to at least 27 on Thursday, meaning significant disruption for thousands of passengers and raising concerns about a possible coordinated effort to impact travel on the continent, CBS News reports. According to Newsweek, Spanish airline Iberia has confirmed that two of its planes were among the three to receive bomb threats at Madrid airport this morning. According to The Irish Times, WizzAir said two of its flights had been the subject of bomb threats on Thursday – one from Milan to Bucharest that landed safely at its destination, and another scheduled to fly from Milan to Warsaw that landed safely in Vienna after it was diverted. According to CBS News, two of the planes were EasyJet flights, one from Newcastle, England, to Prague, and another from Glasgow, Scotland, to Prague, the airline confirmed.

CBS News reports that an Aer Lingus Airbus A320 plane is seen at Evreux military air base after the flight from Dublin to Rome was diverted to France following a bomb threat, November 5, 2026. The plane landed in Vienna without incident, Al Jazeera reports. According to CBC News, two other planes affected by bomb threats — an Aegean Airlines flight from Thessaloniki and a Ryanair flight from Porto — landed safely at their destination at Milan's Malpensa, an airport source said Thursday. According to CBS News, an Air Serbia plane flying from Belgrade to Bucharest, Romania, landed safely at its destination November 5 after receiving a bomb threat, Serbia's national air carrier said in a statement shared with CBS News. CBS News reports that three other planes, all Ryanair flights bound for Sofia, made emergency landings in Bulgaria November 5 after indications of potential danger on board, according to Bulgarian National Television (BNT). One runway at Chopin Airport was temporarily closed while authorities carried out standard security procedures, New York Post reports. In Warsaw, a LOT flight to Paris was stopped as it was taxiing towards take-off and passengers were transferred to another aircraft as a precaution, ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation and ABC News (Australia) report.

RTÉ reports that on November 2, a Wizz Air flight from London's Luton airport to Sofia was diverted due a bomb threat and forced to make an emergency stop in Budapest. According to ABC News & Headlines – Australian Broadcasting Corporation and ABC News (Australia), two Easyjet flights from Britain, one flight from Ireland and one from Greece landed as scheduled in Prague after receiving bomb threats, Czech police said. According to CBS News, a second Wizz Air flight bound for Bucharest also landed safely after being targeted, Reuters reported Romanian intelligence as saying. Two Easyjet (EZJ.L) flights from Britain, one flight from Ireland and one from Greece landed as scheduled in Prague after receiving bomb threats, as did a Finnair flight from Helsinki to Vienna, a Polish LOT flight from Warsaw to Brussels, a Hungarian Wizz Air (WIZZ.L) flight from Milan to Bucharest, and an Air Serbia flight from Belgrade, also to Bucharest, Reuters reports.

The accounts place Bomb at different points in the run of events. According to RTÉ, Italian, French and Bulgarian fighter jets were scrambled November 5 as at least 14 European flights - including an Aer Lingus flight from Dublin - were hit by hoax bomb alerts for the third day this week, authorities and airlines said. At least 11 planes, originating from cities including Copenhagen, Dublin, Helsinki, Madrid, Milan and Warsaw, have been affected, Fox News reports. No suspicious materials have been found so far and no one has claimed responsibility for all the hoaxes, Newsweek reports. According to Newsweek, "Wizz Air confirms that today’s Milan Malpensa–Warsaw flight (W4 6387) has been diverted to Vienna following a bomb threat received during the flight. "The diversion was initiated in accordance with established security protocols and procedures, with the safety of passengers and crew as the highest priority." Two hundred Wizz Air passengers were forced to evacuate from a flight travelling from Milan to Bucharest after a similar threat. "Passengers have been disembarked.

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The accounts place Bomb at different points in the run of events. According to RTÉ, Italian, French and Bulgarian fighter jets were scrambled November 5 as at least 14 European flights - including an Aer Lingus flight from Dublin - were hit by hoax bomb alerts for the third day this week, authorities and airlines said. At least 11 planes, originating from cities including Copenhagen, Dublin, Helsinki, Madrid, Milan and Warsaw, have been affected, Fox News reports.

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