Fighter jets escorted a Finnair flight from Helsinki into Rome too. Other threats hit flights heading to Vienna, Warsaw, Sofia, Plovdiv, Prague and Brussels. Nothing has been found on any of them so far.
No one has said who is behind it.
That's everything we know.
Why this mattersSo this is the third wave this week.
A few days ago, seven flights got threats. Maybe ten — Euronews says ten, Al Jazeera and the Irish Times say seven plus a cruise ship. Either way, it was a lot.
A Scandinavian Airlines flight landed fine in Warsaw, but the airport shut a runway to check it anyway. A flight from London got sent to a different Warsaw airport instead, and that one closed too, just for a bit. In Rome, two fighter jets escorted a Ryanair flight in. In Spain, a Ryanair flight from Manchester landed fine in Murcia after Spain's airport authority hit the emergency button. In London, police said four planes at Heathrow and one at Manchester got threats. Nothing turned up.
And a cruise ship got hit too. The Crown Iris, heading to Haifa with about 1,500 people on board, got evacuated off a Greek island. No device. Nothing there either.
The day before that, a Wizz Air flight from London got diverted mid-air to Budapest. Hungarian fighter jets escorted it in.
So three days. Three waves. Every single threat has turned out to be fake. Not one explosive found anywhere.
Britain's government has already said what it looks like — malicious hoaxes.
So why keep doing it if nothing ever goes off?
Here's what an actual expert says. Rhys Jones, who does analysis at the aviation risk firm Osprey Flight Solutions, told Reuters that seven confirmed threats hitting flights in one day is exceptional. And he says there's no clear target. Which tells him the goal isn't any one plane. It's just disruption, full stop.
That's a security expert saying this is about testing the whole system's nerve, not hitting one target.
And it's not just planes.
Hackers also shut down supermarket refrigeration systems across Europe this week. Some experts think that's the same playbook. Cheap, deniable, hard to trace back to anyone.
European officials have been saying Russia and Iran are behind a string of what they call hybrid attacks for months now. Both countries deny it completely.
Nobody has named a suspect. Nobody has said who did it. And three days in, nobody has even said whether this is one campaign or three unrelated ones.
For now, the planes keep landing safely. The bomb squads keep finding nothing. And the threats keep coming.
