Wizz Air flight from London in emergency touchdown after bomb risk

A Wizz Air flight travelling from London Luton Airport to Sofia has been escorted by a Hungarian fighter jet to Budapest after a mid-air bomb risk.

The plane was pressured to make an emergency touchdown at Budapest Liszt Ferenc Worldwide.

Authorities there “carried out the required safety checks on the plane and passengers”, a spokesperson for Wizz Air mentioned.

The airline later confirmed an inspection had been “accomplished and nothing was discovered”, including that the airplane would depart once more shortly. Hungarian Defence Minister Romulusz Ruszin-Szendis confirmed his nation offered the fighter jet to escort the flight.

Based on flight monitoring web site FlightAware, Wizz Air flight 4302 departed Luton at 08:33 GMT and was as a consequence of arrive within the Bulgarian capital at 13:25 native time (11:25 GMT).

However the web site mentioned it landed in Budapest at 12:09 native time (11:09 GMT).

In a submit on social media, Ruszin-Szendis mentioned that after receiving the bomb risk, the Wizz Air flight had requested permission to land on the airport in Budapest.

“Inside minutes, a Hungarian Defence Forces Gripen fighter jet took to the skies and offered an escort for the passenger plane”, he mentioned.

After this, the jet returned to its base and police took cost of the incident, he added.

The airline mentioned that after the airplane made the emergency touchdown, it taxied “to a chosen stand” the place the safety checks have been carried out.

Wizz Air added that it was “cooperating totally with the authorities”, and that the protection of passengers and crew “stays our highest precedence”.