{"id":575458,"date":"2026-02-08T15:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/575458\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T15:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:33:10","slug":"fighter-jets-escort-wizz-air-flight-to-ben-gurion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/575458\/","title":{"rendered":"Fighter jets escort Wizz Air flight to Ben-Gurion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Fighter jets scrambled to intercept a Wizz Air flight from London Luton to Ben-Gurion Airport on Sunday, due to concerns over a security incident, Israeli media reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to N12 News, one of the passengers on the airplane received an unusual message that raised fears about an attempt to harm the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Authorities believe that the passenger changed a WiFi account name to &#8220;terrorist&#8221; and sent threatening messages to other passengers, N12 reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The suspicion of a security incident has been lifted, and the plane has safely landed at Ben-Gurion Airport, the Israel Airports Authority confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Israel Police officers were waiting for passengers on the tarmac at Ben-Gurion Airport, footage shared on social media appears to show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The incident is under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fighter jets scrambled to intercept a Wizz Air flight from London Luton to Ben-Gurion Airport on Sunday, due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":575459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[8482,9442,8483,99,249824,40554,50,4995,5343,249825],"class_list":["post-575458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-ben-gurion-airport","tag-fighter-jets","tag-flights","tag-israel","tag-israel-airports-authority","tag-israel-police","tag-news","tag-security","tag-terrorism","tag-wizz-air"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116035741926261931","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}