Several flights were forced to make emergency landings in France, Bulgaria and Belgium after bomb alerts were received, Público reports. The alerts prompted aircraft to be diverted and brought down urgently on Thursday, according to the Portuguese outlet.
The disruption was not limited to those three countries. Folha de S.Paulo reports that 14 flights across Europe were affected, with planes changing course and landing in a hurry. CNN Brasil and VEJA both describe a fresh wave of bomb threats leading to flight diversions on the continent.
Público's headline names France, Bulgaria and Belgium as the countries where aircraft carried out emergency landings. The other outlets frame the episode more broadly as a Europe-wide aviation disruption, with Folha de S.Paulo putting the number of affected flights at 14. The reports do not specify which airlines or routes were involved, and no further details on the nature of the threats have been given in the material available.
The incident adds to a pattern of security scares affecting air travel in Europe, though the reporting summarized here does not establish a link between this episode and earlier ones. Authorities have not commented in the coverage reviewed.
What to watch next: whether investigators identify those behind the alerts and whether further flights are disrupted in the coming days.
