Turkish fighter jets were scrambled on June 30 after a passenger flight from Warsaw to Tel Aviv mistakenly transmitted a hijacking alert midflight, officials and media reports said. The aircraft later landed safely in Bulgaria after the alarm was determined to be false.

The Electra Airways Airbus A320, operating for LOT from Warsaw to Israel, circled near Cyprus and turned back after the pilot reportedly triggered a hijacking alert, then withdrew…

The Israeli military said it scrambled two fighter jets towards a civilian airliner over the Mediterranean Sea on Tuesday, with European officials saying