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

A bomb scare forced a passenger plane from London to make an emergency landing in Poland on Tuesday, while three other threats grounded flights from Manchester, Copenhagen and Israel.

– A Polish airline LOT Boeing 737 from Heathrow was carrying 181 people when an alert brought it down on Tuesday morning at Warsaw-Modlin airport, diverted from Warsaw Chopin.

– A second bomb threat was reported on a Scandinavian SAS flight from Copenhagen to Warsaw, which was forced to land at Chopin Airport and was also being checked.

– A third threat was reported on a Ryanair flight carrying 114 passengers from Manchester that landed in Murcia in southern Spain, according to Diari ARA.

– Separately, a plane flying from Israel landed at Sofia airport after a bomb threat was received by email, local media reported on Tuesday. Counter-terrorism units were checking the plane for possible explosive devices.

It was not immediately clear whether the threats were linked.

A spokesperson for the UK’s civil aviation authority (CAA) tells The Independent that they are aware of the reports of bomb threats on flights departing from the UK.

They say they are unable to comment on the specific incidents.

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Two Ryanair flights have been searched following anonymous tips regarding potential bomb threats, hours after several planes were forced into an emergency landing.

Sources told the BBC that the Ryanair flights – one originating from Lisbon and one from Dublin – had been forced into an emergency landing at Rome Fiumicino airport .