Wizz Air Flight Diverted to Budapest After Bomb Threat

Overview

• The Wizz Air London–Sofia flight, which received a bomb threat Monday while over Bosnian airspace, was diverted to Budapest and escorted by Hungarian Gripen fighter jets.
• After the unscheduled landing Hungarian police searched the aircraft and screened passengers while the escorting fighters returned to their base in Kecskemét.
• Wizz Air told the Hungarian site 24.hu that authorities were investigating and the plane later continued to and landed safely in Sofia, according to Bulgarian broadcaster BNT.
• Authorities have not publicly confirmed any explosive device or arrests and details are still unclear about how the threat was communicated to the cockpit.
• National air-defence escorts are standard procedure for in-flight threats in Europe and investigators are likely to coordinate across Hungary, Bosnia and Bulgaria as the probe continues.