Three passenger airlines were threatened with a bomb, Hungarian Gripens were alerted

Hungarian Gripen fighters participated in training flights and responded to multiple alerts regarding bomb threats against civilian aircraft. NATO ordered an ALPHA SCRAMBLE due to threats involving three passenger planes. The first alert occurred at 9:48 AM for an Airbus A321 flying from Brussels to Sofia, prompting the fighters to escort it until it left Hungarian airspace towards Serbia. A second alert at 10:33 AM involved two flights from Prague, heading to Cyprus and Bucharest, which also left Hungary shortly after. This week has seen several bomb threats against passenger flights, starting with a Wizz Air flight that had to land in Budapest, escorted by a Gripen fighter.