{"id":518521,"date":"2026-06-30T17:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/518521\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T17:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T17:11:11","slug":"jets-scrambled-as-ben-gurion-airport-loses-contact-with-commercial-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/518521\/","title":{"rendered":"Jets scrambled as Ben Gurion Airport loses contact with commercial aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"

IDF fighter jets were scrambled after airport authorities at Ben-Gurion Airport<\/a> lost contact with a commercial flight on its way to Israel, the military said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The IDF confirmed that communications with the flight were re-established and that a security incident aboard the plane was discarded.<\/p>\n

“Two Air Force fighter jets were scrambled a short time ago towards a civilian plane in the Mediterranean following a report that contact with the plane was lost. The incident has ended, and contact with the plane has been restored; there is no fear of a security incident,” the military said.<\/p>\n

The flight, which originated in Poland and was operated by the Bulgarian company Electra Airways, was denied entry to Israel and diverted to Bulgaria, Israeli media reported.<\/p>\n

Additional reports by Israeli media indicated that the plane’s pilot diverted his route while flying over Cyprus and had a cockpit button that signals a hijacking, before being denied entry to Israel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The incident is being investigated, and officials<\/a> called it “highly unusual and dangerous.”<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, an Israir plane<\/a> scheduled to land in Ljubljana, Slovenia, was denied permission to land and diverted to Zagreb, Croatia.<\/p>\n

The decision was reportedly made by Slovenian authorities, whom the company claims were politically motivated.<\/p>\n

Israir’s CEO, Uri Sirkis, stated that this incident violated aviation agreements and EU laws.<\/p>\n

Relevant Israeli authorities, including the Foreign Ministry and the Civil Aviation Authority, were involved in efforts to find a solution that would allow the flight to proceed as planned, but those efforts were unsuccessful, Sirkis said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IDF fighter jets were scrambled after airport authorities at Ben-Gurion Airport lost contact with a commercial flight on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518522,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5480,37186,83601,12274,1031,85,46,144319,43,10748],"class_list":["post-518521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-airport","tag-ben-gurion-airport","tag-fighter-jets","tag-iaf","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-airports-authority","tag-news","tag-plane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518521","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=518521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}