False bomb alert disrupts Lisbon-Rome flight
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on L’essentiel
A Ryanair flight from Lisbon to Rome was disrupted on 6 November after a bomb threat ultimately deemed false by Portuguese police. At the same time, at least eight flights in Prague and four aircraft flying over France were subject to alerts, according to AFP and the authorities concerned.
A false bomb alert disrupted a Ryanair flight from Lisbon, Portugal, to Rome, Italy, on Friday 6 November 2026. The threat targeting the aircraft was ruled out after checks, Portuguese police said.
At least eight flights departing from or bound for Prague, Czech Republic, were also targeted by bomb alerts on Friday, according to a spokesperson for the Czech capital's airport quoted by AFP. The threats concerned aircraft arriving from Denmark, Spain and the United Kingdom, as well as flights bound for the Netherlands, Cyprus, Romania, Italy and the United Kingdom.
Four other alerts concerned aircraft flying over French territory. The aircraft landed without incident, while bomb disposal teams carried out security inspections, Matignon, the headquarters of the French prime minister's services, announced. Three aircraft landed at Paris-Orly Airport and a fourth in Bordeaux, according to a source familiar with the matter.
An investigation has been opened to determine the origin of the threats, according to the French prime minister's services. Some claims sent to the airports of Rome and Sofia were attributed to a group calling itself the "male state fighters", whose link to a Russian ultranationalist movement remains to be verified.
These incidents are part of a series of threats targeting European air transport. On 6 November, a tally reported 32 bomb alerts in four days targeting twelve airlines.
