UK flight with 181 passengers diverted after bomb threat

A LOT Polish Airlines flight operating from London Heathrow to Warsaw, with 181 people on board, was diverted to Warsaw Modlin Airport due to a bomb threat, according to Dublin Live and echoed by My London. The incident resulted in an unscheduled arrival at Modlin, as the aircraft’s scheduled destination remained Warsaw. No further details about the threat itself, the aircraft type beyond the referenced Boeing 737 MAX 8 in related reporting, or immediate safety outcomes were provided by these sources.

My London adds that the flight, LO286, departed Heathrow at 6:45 am local time and landed at Modlin around 10:00 am local time (9:00 am GMT). Emergency services responded at Modlin, and the airport was described as closed pending further assessment. The reporting also noted a separate bomb-threat incident involving another flight arriving in Warsaw from Copenhagen operated by SAS, but it did not specify any connection to the LOT flight aside from the broader context of disruptions and threats.

Nacionale frames the event as a diversion of a LOT aircraft destined for Warsaw after a bomb threat, noting that the diversion occurred during its London area transit to Modlin. The material supplied does not include the flight number, exact London departure details, the time of diversion beyond a general London-to-Warsaw routing, or information about the nature of the threat, the level of disruption to passengers, aircraft status, or immediate responses from authorities.

The News International reports that the LOT flight from London Heathrow diverted to Warsaw Modlin after a bomb alert, with authorities responding to the bomb threat upon landing. It does not provide details on the exact flight number, precise timing, or subsequent actions. The article mentions emergency arrangements at Modlin as authorities assessed the situation, but again offers no specifics about injuries, aircraft damage, or the final disposition of passengers.

Egyptian Gazette contributes a wider European context to bomb-threat coverage, but its cited incident concerns a plane traveling from Israel that landed at Sofia after a bomb threat received by email. Counter-terrorism units conducted security sweeps as the interior ministry’s secretary general was cited in reporting by BTA. This material does not establish any direct link to the Heathrow-to-Warsaw LOT diversion and provides no information about the LOT flight’s timing, aircraft type beyond the generic reference to a separate, unrelated incident, or passenger outcomes.

Inshorts consolidates several bomb-threat reports, including a noted New York–bound flight evacuated after a bomb threat, with no disclosed airline, flight number, exact airport, timing, or injuries. It also mentions an IndiGo flight from Phuket evacuated at Kolkata after a bomb-threat message found in a washroom mirror, with about 80 passengers onboard and a multi-hour tarmac hold. The Israel-to-Sofia Europe-context pieces cited by Inshorts reference the same broader phenomenon and include notes about a Boeing 737 MAX diverted from London Heathrow to Modlin, with 181 passengers aboard, and security actions at Modlin as checks continued and operations were suspended pending threat verification, though they do not add additional verifiable details about the Heathrow–Warsaw diversion itself.

Overall, the compiled material confirms a bomb-threat–related diversion of a LOT Polish Airlines flight from Heathrow to Warsaw, diverting to Warsaw Modlin with 181 people aboard, and it notes emergency-response activity and Modlin’s temporary suspensions and security checks. However, none of the supplied sources provides confirmed information about any injuries, the precise aircraft type (beyond a Boeing 737 MAX 8 reference in related material), the exact flight number, the nature of the threat, or the final determination of the threat’s credibility. The reporting consistently indicates emergency services were engaged and that Modlin Airport underwent a security assessment prior to any further passenger movement.