Seven flights across Europe targeted by suspected bomb threats

Legenda da figura, Assista: cão farejador inspeciona avião da Ryanair na Espanha após suspeita de ameaça de bomba.

• Published3 November 2026, 11:22 GMT.
• Wizz Air flight from Luton in emergency landing after bomb threatPublished1 day ago.

Sete aviões de passageiros em toda a Europa, dos quais dois partiram do UK, foram inspecionados após uma série de suspeitas de ameaças de bomba.

Two Ryanair flights, one originating from Dublin and the other from Lisbon, were searched after landing in Rome following anonymous tips but no explosives were found, sources at the city's Fiumicino airport told the BBC.

The Dublin flight was escorted by the Italian Air Force until landing. Authorities have also searched planes in Poland, Spain and Bulgaria.

Embora oficialmente não haja ligação entre eles, autoridades de vários países irão cooperar para avaliar se isso foi um ataque coordenado, projetado para perturbar o espaço aéreo.

O governo do Reino Unido descreveu os incidentes de hoje como “malicious hoax threats”.

In a statement it said it had "one of the most robust aviation security systems in the world, with well-tested processes for dealing with any potential threats, as well as malicious hoax threats, like those we've seen today.

Aviation security expert Paul Mason said bomb threats on passenger planes "don't happen that frequently", which made the latest incidents "unusual.

Isso parece ter sido feito de maneira credível em uma ampla variedade de companhias aéreas, disse Mason ao BBC Radio 5 Live. Isso sugeriria para mim que foi um ato muito deliberado por um ator típico, em vez de uma série de chamadas coincidentes e maliciosas.

He said "there are a lot of processes" that the onboard crew and people on the ground must go through "to validate the credibility of the threat.

A flight may be asked to divert if the credibility of a threat "is of a certain level", Mason added, and in some cases the onboard crew may not even be advised on what the ground operators were dealing with.

Fonte da imagem: Getty Images Legenda da imagem: Dois dos quatro voos estavam a caminho do aeroporto Chopin de Varsóvia.

In Rome, sources at Fiumicino airport told the BBC police bomb disposal experts carried out standard security protocols to ensure the safety of all passengers and crew.

Inspeções dos passageiros, bagagem e da aeronave tiveram resultados negativos, e o alerta foi desde então desativado.

One plane which landed in Murcia, southern Spain - a Ryanair flight coming from Manchester - was also found not to have any explosives on board, Spanish authorities said.

Uma passageira, posteriormente, afirmou que não tinha conhecimento da ameaça de bomba até depois que o avião pousou.

We weren't told anything during the flight," Sarah told BBC Radio 5 Live. "The plane stopped quite suddenly and then we were kept on the runway for around 30 minutes.

Then the fire engines turned up, the bomb squad turned up and we were asked to evacuate," she continues.

Sarah said the plane had not been on the ground a minute before it was "surrounded by fire engines and police and a bomb squad". All the passengers were then escorted by police, leaving all their belongings.

We were only later told that it was an actual threat, a bomb threat to the plane itself," she added.

Dois voos com destino a Varsóvia também foram afetados, incluindo um de Londres Heathrow.

O voo de Heathrow, originalmente programado para aterrissar no principal aeroporto da capital polonesa, Chopin, acabou sendo desviado para o menor aeroporto de Modlin, forçando brevemente seu fechamento.

A Scandinavian Airlines flight from Copenhagen to Warsaw-Chopin landed as planned.

Later on Tuesday, Bulgarian Transport Minister Georgi Peev said there were bomb threats against two planes travelling to the country's capital Sofia.

He told the state-owned Bulgarian News Agency (BTA) the flights were from the northern Italian city of Bergamo and Ireland's capital Dublin.

Os voos para Sofia não foram desviados e não foram encontrados explosivos quando os aviões foram verificados, disse Peev.

Bulgaria's border police said in a statement sent to the BBC that at around 10:35 (08:35 GMT) it had received an email about "the presence of an improvised explosive device on a flight returning from Bergamo.

Standard procedures for such incidents were immediately activated, and an operational headquarters comprising representatives of various institutions was convened," the statement said.

The border police added that the same email also reported a "similar threat against aircraft arriving from Dublin.

Image source, ReutersImage caption, Initial checks found no explosives on board the Crown Iris cruise ship.

Em um desenvolvimento separado, um alerta de bomba provocou a evacuação de 1. 537 passageiros e tripulação de um cruzeiro com destino a Israel na Grécia, dizem relatórios da mídia de ambos os países.

Initial checks of the Panama-flagged Crown Iris vessel currently docked at a port on the Aegean island of Syros found no explosives, they said citing the Greek Coast Guard.

Uma segunda inspeção é esperada em breve.

Incidentes com aeronaves na terça-feira vêm um dia depois de um voo da Wizz Air de Londres Luton ter feito um pouso de emergência em Budapeste, acompanhado por um caça húngaro, após uma ameaça de bomba.

A Wizz Air disse mais tarde que as verificações de segurança foram realizadas e nada foi encontrado.

BBC Verify has consulted aviation safety experts about what happens on board a plane when a bomb threat is issued.

Marco Chan, a former pilot for Cathay Pacific Airways and Hong Kong Airlines who is now a senior lecturer in aviation operations at Kingston University, said a bomb threat is considered "genuine until it is resolved, even though most turn out to be hoaxes.

Chan disse que as tripulações farão buscas “quietly search” nos banheiros, cozinhas e áreas de armazenamento e não tocarão em um item suspeito, a menos que seja necessário levá-lo para uma área do avião designada como o local de menor risco para bombas.

The aircraft's captain will have multiple factors to assess, according to former airline pilot Terry Tozer, an aviation safety commentator.

He said these include what facilities are available at the airport they are being diverted to and how the plane can continue onwards should it turn out to be a false threat.

Chan acrescentou que, uma vez no solo, o avião geralmente é “levado para um pátio isolado, os passageiros são desembarcados e as equipes de polícia e de desativação de bombas o procuram.”.

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