{"id":280933,"date":"2026-02-08T18:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/280933\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T18:01:09","slug":"fighter-jets-scrambled-to-wizz-air-flight-after-prank-sparked-panic-among-couple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/280933\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighter jets scrambled to Wizz Air flight after prank sparked panic among couple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fighter jets were scrambled toward a Wizz Air passenger plane en route to landing at Ben Gurion Airport after a couple reported that the word &#8216;terrorist&#8217; in Arabic appeared on one of their phones. Fearing a potential security incident, the flight crew relayed the report and fighter jets were scrambled. Investigation of the incident revealed it was a prank by the couple&#8217;s son, who changed the network name on their phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fighter jets were scrambled toward a Wizz Air passenger plane en route to landing at Ben Gurion Airport&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-280933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}