Security experts blame Russia for the hoax bomb threats that grounded British jets and sparked flight chaos across Europe
A LOT Polish Airlines Boeing 737 like the aircraft carrying 181 passengers, including Jewish schoolchildren from a London school, that was diverted from its Heathrow-to-Warsaw route after a hoax bomb threat.A locator map of European flight routes, showing the countries affected by Tuesday's bomb threats, including the Ryanair jet from Manchester that landed under guard in Murcia, Spain.
At least eight European flights were forced into emergency landings on Tuesday after a wave of coordinated hoax bomb threats, with security experts saying it is "highly likely" Vladimir Putin ordered the campaign. Three of the targeted planes departed from Britain — two from London Heathrow and Manchester, and a third disrupted a day earlier from London Luton.
One Heathrow jet carried Jewish schoolchildren, aged 16 and 17, returning from Holocaust memorial visits to Auschwitz, Treblinka and Majdanek.
The bomb threat blitz coincides with a cyber attack that raised temperatures in fridges and freezers to 55C across seven European countries, hitting UK meat suppliers.
Professor Anthony Glees said Putin is running "a kinetic shadow war" alongside a "secret subversive war using disinformation" to test Western resilience.
