Bomb threat prompts police search of Delta flight at Ben Gurion Airport

Corroborated · Ben Gurion Airport, Israel · 2026-10-13 06:05 UTC

Haaretz reports police searched a Delta plane at Ben-Gurion Airport after an anonymous bomb report and found nothing. The Jerusalem Post reports the flight was isolated or returned to the airport after the threat, with passengers evacuated, and Anadolu and The Media Line report a search or evacuation after a bomb threat. Tasnim, citing a bomb warning about an aircraft at Ben Gurion, is the only Iran-aligned source.

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Verification

Corroborated: 3 independent sources.

Sources disagree on:

• Direction of travel differs: the Jerusalem Post says a Delta flight to the US returned to Ben-Gurion, while Anadolu says a flight from New York was searched and The Media Line says it landed in Israel.
• Evacuation differs: The Jerusalem Post and The Media Line say passengers were evacuated or the threat forced an evacuation, while Haaretz reports only a police search that found nothing.
• Outcome is not uniform: Haaretz and the police-attributed account report nothing found, while The Media Line frames the event as a threat that forced evacuation.
• Timestamps conflict: a Jerusalem Post item reported at 06:05Z predates the 06:12Z occurrence hour given for the same event.

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Sources

• The Jerusalem Post, 2026-10-13 06:05 UTC
• The Jerusalem Post, 2026-10-13 06:12 UTC
• Haaretz (English), 2026-10-13 06:19 UTC
• Tasnim News (Telegram), 2026-10-13 06:27 UTC
• Anadolu Ajansı, 2026-10-13 06:37 UTC
• Anadolu Ajansı, 2026-10-13 06:37 UTC
• The Media Line, 2026-10-13 07:27 UTC

First reported 2026-10-13 06:05 UTC; last updated 2026-10-16 06:38 UTC.

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