{"id":24254,"date":"2026-10-19T11:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T11:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/19\/tel-aviv-vienna-flight-emergency-landing-bulgaria-bomb-threat\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T11:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T11:33:18","slug":"tel-aviv-vienna-flight-emergency-landing-bulgaria-bomb-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/19\/tel-aviv-vienna-flight-emergency-landing-bulgaria-bomb-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Tel Aviv-Heading Austrian Airlines Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Bulgaria After Bomb Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Austrian Airlines plane flying from Tel Aviv to Vienna was forced to make an emergency landing at Sofia Airport, the capital of Bulgaria, after receiving a report of a possible bomb on board.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli media reported that the flight route was altered shortly after takeoff and the aircraft was diverted to Sofia. After the emergency landing, Bulgarian and Israeli security forces carried out comprehensive inspections together to ensure the safety of the plane and its passengers.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations into the source of the security report and the nature of the threat are still under way to verify or reject the claim.<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes a week after two similar bomb threat reports involving Delta flights from New York to the occupied territories were published, both of which turned out to be false.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Austrian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Vienna made an emergency landing in Sofia after a reported bomb threat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24253,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}