The Hungarian army today received three bomb threats against commercial aircraft flying over the country's airspace, which led NATO to order the dispatch of fighters to the area, the Defense Minister announced.
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06/11/2026
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O hungarian army today received three bomb threats against commercial aircraft flying over the country's airspace, which led NATO to order the dispatch of fighters to the area, the Defense Minister announced.
The first warning was issued shortly before 10 a.m. locals (09 a.m. in Lisbon) and referred to a commercial flight from Brussels to Sofia.
Half an hour later, another alert was issued, this time affecting two flights departing from Prague, one to Cyprus and the other to Bucharest, the capital of Romania.
According to Hungarian Defense Minister Romulusz Ruszin-Szendi, NATO issued in all three cases an ‘Alpha Scramble’ alert (an immediate and real take-off order for fighter planes to intercept a potentially hostile or unidentified aircraft), which led to the mobilisation of the Hungarian Air Force, which escorted the planes to the borders with Serbia in the first case and Romania in the other two.
These incidents occurred at a time when there are several threats against flights in Europe.
Only on Thursday, at least 25 flights between European countries were affected by threats, leading the European Commission to activate the information sharing mechanism between Member States.
During the week, several European countries have reported threats to flights from different airlines, including Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Austria, Poland, Denmark, Ireland, Greece, Finland, Serbia and Romania.
On Tuesday, a Russian extremist cell sent an ‘email’ to Italian airports with bomb threats against six flights.
“The explosion will take place in 60 minutes. Today, your sky will turn red”, said the ‘email’ quoted by the agency ANSA.
The cell refers to the Muzhskoye Gosudarstvo, a Russian ultranationalist and misogynist movement – already known to international authorities – founded by Vladislav Pozdnyakov and banned in Russia.
“ We, the ‘male state’ fighters, will leave our mark on history with our actions today. Your feminist regime will remember this forever”, he also referred to the ‘email’.
Despite the dozens of flights affected, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) considers that alerts pose a reduced threat to air safety.