Double bomb threat on a plane leaving Rome and a flight taking off from Prague

A bomb threat on a flight from Rome forced a security operation to be carried out at Lisbon airport this morning: the news was broadcast by CNN Portugal and confirmed by other media. The Ryanair plane landed in the Portuguese capital at 8 this morning. The alert was received by the Public Security Police via a phone call from a law enforcement officer, whose identity was verified by members of the Judicial Police. Authorities are taking steps to assess and confirm the credibility of the threat.

Another bomb threat was triggered for a Wizzair Prague-Rome flight. The report of the bomb on board came from an anonymous phone call to the Fiumicino control tower. The flight, which should have arrived in the capital at 11am, was diverted to Venice where it landed. The police clean-up is underway.

The passengers of the Air Lingus Airbus A320 which left Dublin yesterday morning and headed to Fiumicino, forced to land at the military base of Evreux-Fauville, in Normandy, following a bomb threat, have returned to Rome. The passengers were re-protected by the company on a flight that left last night from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport at 9.46pm and landed in Rome Fiumicino around 11.35pm yesterday.

"I was sitting more or less in the front and in any case I could see the scene clearly. The light above the pilot's door came on and he called the first flight attendant into the cabin who rushed in. She came out very alarmed and called the others and they made the people sit down. There was no panic, but it was understood that in any case something unusual, strange was happening", said Alessandra, traveling from New York with a connecting flight to Rome via Dublin.

"Our flight was diverted to a military airport, they made us get off and searched us with dogs. We were treated well, but it was a difficult day", added Saverio Brusca, from Terracina, to the story, returning from a holiday in Dublin with his family. "We were in this military base, where we were checked, they temporarily seized our luggage according to military protocol. Then we were diverted onto a new flight and now we are in Rome and this is where this epic ends", concludes Giuseppe, a worker in Dublin, who will continue his journey to Naples.

Eurocontrol, bomb alerts on 21 flights in Europe in 3 days

There were 21 flights affected by the bomb threats recorded in Europe on 3 and 5 November, of which 14 yesterday alone. This is the assessment provided by Eurocontrol, the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation, which is monitoring the situation in collaboration with the authorities and operators in the sector. "Eurocontrol is aware of bomb threats against 14 flights on 5 November and 7 flights on 3 November 2026," the organization told ANSA. Yesterday the alerts concerned 0.049% of the 28,488 flights registered on the European air traffic network. On November 3, 0.026% on 26,278 flights. The reports, Eurocontrol highlighted, "had no impact on delays in the air traffic network". The European organization assured that it is committed to "monitoring the situation and working closely with airlines, airports, air navigation service providers and other organizations across Europe to limit any disruption to air traffic flows". For issues relating to security threats, Eurocontrol specifies, the airlines, airports and national authorities responsible for the operations concerned remain responsible.