On Sunday evening, an Austrian Airlines flight that had taken off from Tel Aviv bound for Vienna received a report of a suspicious object aboard the aircraft. Passengers, including a delegation scheduled to deliver speeches at the United Nations, were informed of the threat. The aircraft landed in Sofia, Bulgaria. No explosive device was found.
The aircraft involved was an Airbus A320. According to the second source, the plane was at an altitude of about 30,500 feet when the general emergency signal was activated. No further details are available at this time.
🚨BREAKING: Flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna makes emergency landing after bomb threat https://t.co/nkzKpY37kW
The third source notes that the Israel Air Force was not involved in the incident. It also places the event in a recent pattern of false bomb reports on flights to and from Israel, noting that just days before similar unfounded alerts had been issued on Delta Airlines flights traveling between New York and Israel.
The third source notes that the Israel Air Force was not involved in the incident.
BREAKING 🇮🇱: Flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna makes emergency landing after 'bomb threat'
No further details are available at this time.