A Wizz Air flight made an emergency landing in Bucharest, Romania, on October 25th.
The plane heading from Kutaisi, Georgia, to Warsaw, Poland, was diverted due to a bomb threat.
The plane landed safely. All passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
The bomb threat turned out to be a false alarm.
Turkish Airlines flight 606 had to make an emergency landing at Khartoum International Airport, Sudan, on November 30th.
The plane heading from Nairobi, Kenya, to Cairo, Egypt, was diverted after a passenger reported a bomb threat.
The plane landed uneventfully. Everyone aboard remained safe.
It is believed that the bomb scare was caused due to an on-board wi-fi network called “bomb on board”.
A Malaysia Airlines plane made an emergency landing at Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah airport in Selangor, Malaysia, on May 18th.
The plane, heading to Singapore, had to return due to a bomb threat. Authorities said the airport’s reception received two phone calls saying there was a bomb on-board.
The plane landed safely. There were 30 passengers and 4 crew members aboard at the time; all of them remained unharmed.
No explosives were found upon inspection.
Scandinavian Airlines flight SK1530 had to make an emergency landing at Göteborg Landvetter Airport in Sweden, on January 22.
Authorities said the plane, en-route from London Heathrow to Stockholm, Sweden, was diverted due to a bomb threat.
The plane landed safely. All 72 people aboard remained unharmed.
The investigation is underway.
TAM Airlines flight JJ8065 had to return and make an emergency landing at Barajas International Airport in Madrid, Spain, on December 15.
The Boeing 777 took off for Sao Paulo, Brazil, but had to return shortly afterwards due to a bomb threat.
The plane landed uneventfully. Everyone aboard remained safe.
Air France flight AF065 made an emergency landing in Salt Lake City, Utah, on November 17.
Authorities said the flight, en-route from Los Angeles to Paris, was diverted due to a bomb threat.
The plane landed safely. None of the 497 passengers and crew members were harmed.
The airline said, “Local authorities are carrying out complete inspections of the aircraft, the passengers and their luggage. An investigation will be led by the authorities to identify the source of the telephone call.”
Air France flight AF55 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Halifax Stanfield International Airport in Nova Scotia, Canada, on November 17.
The plane was en-route from Washington, D.C. to Paris when the authorities received an anonymous bomb threat and decided to divert.
The plane landed uneventfully. All 262 passengers remained safe.
No explosives were found upon inspection.
Cebu Pacific flight 5J-7945 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, India, on the morning of July 30.
The Airbus 330-300 had to be diverted due to a disruptive woman passenger, identified as Jeane T., who first complained of sickness and then informed the crew about a bomb in the plane.
The plane en-route from Dubai, UAE, was transporting 430 passengers and 12 crew members to Manila, Philippines, at the time.
The plane landed uneventfully and everyone aboard remained safe.
The plane was cleared to depart after security clearance while the woman was handed over to the Philippines Embassy in India.
Jet Airways flight 9W-536 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Muscat International Airport, Oman, on the afternoon of July 9.
The plane, en-route to Dubai from Mumbai, had to be landed in emergency after Air Traffic Controllers alerted the pilot about a bomb threat.
A Jet Airways spokesperson Manish Kalghatgi confirmed, “There was a bomb threat on the flight. It was a serious threat prompting the pilot to land at the closest airport.”
The plane landed uneventfully and all 54 passengers and 7 crew members remained safe. The flight continued after security clearance.
Turkish Airlines flight TK 0065 diverted and made an emergency landing at Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Dehli, India, on July 7.
The Airbus 330 was heading towards Istanbul, Turkey, from Bangkok, Thailand, when it had to be diverted due to a bomb threat. According to reports, the crew had found a statement written with lipstick on toilet mirror saying, “Bomb in Cargo Hold.”
The plane, carrying 148 people, landed uneventfully. Civil Aviation spokesperson R.N. Choubey confirmed no bomb was found in the plane.
Air Arabia flight G9128 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Al- Minhad Airbase, Dubai, on May 3.
The plane, en-route from Kuwait to Sharjah, had to be diverted after a passenger said it was about to explode.
The airline confirmed that “[the] flight landed safely and the authorities are currently holding the necessary investigation.”
A Batik Air flight had to make an emergency landing in Makassar, South Sulawesi, Indonesia, on April 17.
The flight was en-route from Ambon in Maliki, to Jakarta, when it had to land in emergency due to a bomb threat.
The plane landed safely at Sultan Hasanuddin airport and all 125 passengers and 8 crew members aboard remained unharmed.
The airline confirmed that no explosive device was found in the plane.
A Germanwings Airbus A320 had to be evacuated at Cologne/Bonn airport in Germany, on April 12.
The airline said Milan-bound flight 4U 826 was taxiing to the runway when the air traffic tower asked the pilot to abort the flight due to a bomb threat.
All 132 people aboard were evacuated safely. The airline confirmed that the plane was thoroughly searched but not explosive device was found.
An alternate aircraft was arranged for the passengers.
Turkish Airlines flight 15 had to divert and make an emergency landing in Casablanca, Morocco, on March 30.
The Boeing 777 was en-route from Istanbul, Turkey, to Sao Paulo, Brazil, when the crew received a note on which ‘bomb’ was written. The crew then reported the situation and sought permission for an emergency landing.
The plane landed uneventfully and was thoroughly searched for any explosives. However, the airline confirmed that nothing was found.
All 256 passengers aboard remained unharmed.
Turkish Airlines flight TK-52 had to return and make an emergency landing at Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey, on March 29.
The flight took off for Tokyo, Japan, at around 1:30 a.m, however, just minutes into the flight, the crew received a message indicating possible C-4 explosive on-board. The pilot immediately reported the situation and requested an emergency return.
The plane landed safely and everyone aboard remained unharmed.
Police teams thoroughly searched the aircraft but no explosive material was found.
Hong Kong Airlines flight HX337 had to divert and make an emergency landing at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport, China, on March 10.
The Airbus A330-200, carrying 295 passengers and crew members, was en-route from Beijing to Hong Kong when the airline officials got information about possible explosive device onboard.
The pilot then diverted the plane to Wuhan Tianhe International Airport where it made an uneventful emergency landing.
Authorities said the aircraft was thoroughly searched upon landing, however, no explosive device was found.
Air China flight CA1336 had to make an emergency landing at Chongqing Airport in China, on February 25.
The flight, heading from Nanning to Beijing, had to land in emergency, after a female passenger claimed there was a bomb in the cabin.
The plane landed uneventfully and everyone aboard remained unharmed. A SWAT team thoroughly searched the plane but no explosive device was found.
The woman was taken for questioning.
F-16 fighter jets were dispatched to escort two airliners to the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Georgia, on January 24.
The fighter jets were sent from a South Carolina base after the authorities received a ‘credible’ bomb threat on Twitter, which targeted the inbound Southwest Airlines Flight 2492 and Delta Air Lines Flight 1156. The Southwest flight was coming from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, while the Delta flight was arriving from Portland, Oregon.
Both aircrafts landed uneventfully and all passengers and crew members remained unharmed.
The passengers were allowed to leave the airport after the FBI authorities debriefed them. The planes and luggage were thoroughly searched by the bomb disposal squad.
An airport spokesperson later confirmed on twitter, “All clear for both aircraft & normal airport operations have resumed. Thank you for your patience. Safety & security are our top priorities.”
American Airlines Flight 67 was searched for a bomb after it landed at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport on November 30.
Authorities said they received a threat involving the New York-bound flight which originated in Barcelona.
The flight landed at JFK at 12:01 p.m., immediately after which, around 200 passengers and 9 crew members were safely evacuated. Police and K-9 unit dogs thoroughly searched the aircraft as well as its cargo, however, no explosive material was found.
The airline said in a statement, “American Airlines apologizes for any inconvenience this may have caused. However, the safety of our passengers and crew is our top priority.”
Officials said the focus of investigation would now be the source of threat.
A Flyme flight had to make an emergency landing at Ibrahim Nasir International Airport in Malé, Maldives, at around 11:49 p.m. on November 22.
The plane was on its way from Malé to Baa Atoll Dharavandhoo Island when a passenger passed a written bomb threat to the pilot through a crew member. The pilot then immediately turned back and made an emergency landing in Malé.
There were 11 passengers and 3 crew members aboard at the time; all of them were evacuated safely. Authorities said that 10 out of 11 passengers were foreign nationals while only 1 was local.
The Maldives National Defense Forces (MNDF) searched the plane, however, they did not find any explosives.
The Police are investigating.
American Airlines flight 362, en-route from Dallas to San Diego, had to divert and make an emergency landing at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport, Arizona, at about 12:05 p.m. on August 24.
According to Rebecca Bloomfield from the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority, officials at San Diego’s Lindbergh Field received a call from the Transportation Security Administration’s Coordination Center that the FBI was looking into a tweet indicating about possible explosives aboard flight 362. The twitter threat was posted by @LizardSquad at around 10:45 a.m. on August 24. It read: @AmericanAir: We have been receiving reports that @j_smedley’s plane #362 from DFW to SAN has explosives on-board, please look into this.
She further said that the FBI officials then diverted the flight to Phoenix where it made a safe emergency landing. Everyone aboard remained safe.
Passengers had to wait while the federal investigators searched the plane for any explosives. The flight resumed to San Diego after 4 hours. The FBI is investigating the incident.
A Norwegian Air flight en route from Copenhagen, Denmark to Oslo, Norway had to make an emergency landing in Sweden, due to a bomb threat from an on-board passenger.
The Boeing 737, carrying around 94 people, was on its way on April 25 afternoon when a passenger told a crew member that he had placed a bomb in the cargo hold. Following the threat, the plane made emergency landing at Landvetter airport, Gothenburg, Sweden, at around 3.30pm GMT.
Lasse Sandaker-Nielsen, the spokesperson for Norwegian Air said “Passengers have left the plane and the man who had warned of the bomb is under control by the police.”
Björ Blixter, a Gothenburg Police official said that the investigation is underway.
Flight Aware
On May 24, 2013, a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 777-340ER was en route from Allama Iqbal Int’l to Manchester when a stewardess told the Captain Nadeem Sufi that a passenger had threatened to bomb the plane. Sixty miles east of their destination, the pilot diverted to Stansted Airport with a British fighter escort.
Mr. Mohammad Shafqat and Ms. Ammara Ashraf had been fighting with eight family members, and when the argument escalated, the two were taken into custody and then released.
During the domestic fight, two men who approached the cockpit were also arrested aboard the plane, handcuffed, and taken into custody to the police station at Stansted. The case is being treated as a criminal rather than terror case.
There were 11 crew and 297 passengers aboard.
Although the Pakistani High Commission blames the pilot for making a decision that puts PIA in a bad light, we believe that the fact that because Captain Sufi landed the plane without injury or loss of life, then he made the right decision.
What: PIA Pakistan International Airlines Airbus A310-300 en route from Lahore Pakistan to Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Where: Kuala Lumpur
When: Sep 7th 2011
Who: 176 passengers
Why: While en route, Pakistan International Airlines received an email there was a bomb aboard the flight.
The plane landed safely in Kuala Lumpur. No bomb was found.
What: PIA Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 777-300 en route from Lahore (Pakistan) to Manchester,EN
Where: Istanbul
When: Sep 7th 2011
Who: 378 passengers
Why: While over the black sea, the airline received an email claiming bombs were planed on the flight. The pilots diverted to Istanbul, where the flight was inspected and no bomb was found.
After immediate evacuation, both planes underwent thorough examination.
