London Stansted Ryanair flight among passenger planes disrupted by new bomb threats

Flight FR1730 left the airport at 6am and was scheduled to land in the capital Sofia at 9.25am GMT, but was diverted to Plovdiv, according to Flightradar24.

The bomb alerts come two days after multiple flights, including one from Heathrow and anotheer from Manchester, were subject to bomb alerts.

The Government said the two UK flights were targeted in “malicious hoax threats”.

Flight LO286 from Heathrow landed at Warsaw Modlin Airport just seven minutes after the alarm was raised.

The airport was closed as security operations got underway.

On Monday, a Wizz Air flight from London Luton made an emergency landing in Budapest, escorted by a Hungarian fighter jet, following a bomb threat.

All flights impacted on Thursday

• EI-DEH Aer Lingus flight from Dublin to Rome, which was diverted to Evreux, France
• FR6410 Ryanair flight from Madrid to Sofia
• FR3606 Ryanair flight from Copenhagen to Sofia
• FR1730 Ryanair flight from London Stansted to Sofia, which was diverted to Plovdiv
• LO235 LOT Polish Airlines flight from Warsaw to Brussels
• W46387 WizzAir flight from Milan Malpensa to Warsaw-Okęcie, which was diverted to Vienna
• AY1761 FinnAir flight from Helsinki to Rome Fiumicino
• AY 1471 FinnAir flight from Helsinki to Vienna