Fighter Jets Deployed to Intercept Wizz Air Flight After Passenger Renames WiFi Hotspot to 'Terrorist'

A PASSENGER jet sparked a full scale terror scare after a child secretly renamed his parents’ phone Wi-Fi hotspot to the word “terrorist”.

Israeli fighter jets were scrambled to intercept the Wizz Air flight as panic ripped through the cabin.

The aircraft, flight W95301, was flying from London Luton to Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport on Sunday afternoon when a passenger reportedly spotted what appeared to be a threatening message on a mobile phone.

Israeli media said the phone belonged to an ultra-Orthodox couple.

But the so-called threat turned out to be nothing more than the name of a Wi-Fi hotspot, which had been changed by the couple’s son to the Arabic word for “terrorist”.

The discovery triggered immediate alarm.

Within minutes, the Israeli Air Force launched several fighter jets, which closed in on the passenger plane and escorted it towards Israel.

FlightRadar data later showed the jet looped three times over the Mediterranean Sea, just south of Cyprus, as security services assessed the situation mid-air.

The plane was eventually guided safely into Ben Gurion Airport in Israel, where passengers were met by bomb-sniffing dogs.

Every traveller – and their belongings – was thoroughly searched.

A spokesperson for the Israel Airports Authority confirmed the scare was unfounded, telling the Times of Israel: “The aircraft landed, and it was found that there was no real incident.”

Flights in and out of Tel Aviv were briefly halted during the drama, before air traffic returned to normal.

Eze Chidiebere Paul

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