Flight bomb threats latest: Ryanair planes searched as several European flights targeted by threats

As of November 3, 2026, Warsaw-Modlin Airport closed briefly after a plane from London Heathrow made an unscheduled landing due to a bomb threat alert. The airport, located about 25 miles north of central Warsaw, was shut down until further notice. Security services were investigating the reported threat at Modlin while another flight from Copenhagen landed and was being checked at Warsaw-Chopin Airport, which continued normal operations. These incidents occurred alongside a separate bomb threat on an Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna that rerouted to Bulgaria on November 1, 2026.

By the next day, November 4, 2026, multiple flights across Europe faced similar threats. In addition to the Polish incidents, Spanish officials confirmed a Ryanair plane flying from Manchester to Murcia in southern Spain was also under threat and had made an emergency landing. No explosives were found on any of these planes; all threats turned out to be false. The Italian Air Force escorted a Ryanair flight into Rome due to an anonymous tip-off call warning of potential bomb threats, but exhaustive searches deemed the aircraft safe.

These disruptions highlighted ongoing concerns about hybrid attacks and sabotage attributed by some European officials to Russia and Iran, though both Moscow and Tehran deny such claims.