{"id":821896,"date":"2026-11-02T17:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/821896\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T17:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T17:02:13","slug":"wizz-air-flight-from-luton-in-emergency-landing-after-bomb-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/821896\/","title":{"rendered":"Wizz Air flight from Luton in emergency landing after bomb threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In a post on social media, Ruszin-Szendis said that after receiving the bomb threat, the Wizz Air flight had requested permission to land at the airport in Budapest. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Within minutes, a Hungarian Defence Forces Gripen fighter jet took to the skies and provided an escort for the passenger aircraft&#8221;, he said.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After this, the jet returned to its base and police took charge of the incident, he added. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The airline said that after the plane made the emergency landing, it taxied &#8220;to a designated stand&#8221; where the security checks were carried out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wizz Air added that it was &#8220;cooperating fully with the authorities&#8221;, and that the safety of passengers and crew &#8220;remains our highest priority&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a post on social media, Ruszin-Szendis said that after receiving the bomb threat, the Wizz Air flight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-821896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}