Bomb threat on Wizz Air flight from Milan: crisis cell set up at Bucharest's Otopeni airport
SRI confirmed that a bomb threat on a Wizz Air Milan–Bucharest flight that landed at Otopeni on 5 November was not confirmed after a specialist search; all 182 passengers and seven crew were safely disembarked.
A Wizz Air aircraft operating flight WMT3064 from Milan to Bucharest landed safely at Henri Coandă International Airport in Otopeni on Thursday, 5 November, after a bomb threat was reported on board. The Bucharest Airports National Company (CNAB) put the landing time at 11:08 a.m. local time; the Romanian Intelligence Service (SRI) said 11:09.
According to the SRI, the crew informed the airport's control tower of the threat, and a crisis cell was set up at the airport. All 182 passengers and the seven crew members were disembarked and escorted into the terminal. An SRI bomb disposal team searched the aircraft and later reported that no explosive material was found and the threat was not confirmed, AGERPRES reported.
The Otopeni alert was part of a wider second wave of hoax bomb threats against European passenger flights on 5 November. The EU activated its aviation-security information-sharing mechanism. Today News Brief is covering the Europe-wide wave in a separate article.