Was this just a bad joke? Or someone trying to “strike terror in the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60)?
“KLM flight delayed by ‘bomb on board’ in Wifi hotspot name,” Dutch News, May 11, 2026 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A KLM flight from Malaga to Amsterdam was delayed for several hours because a passenger used a Wifi hotspot with the name “Allahu Akbar: there is a bomb on board.”
The aircraft was evacuated and searched thoroughly on the ground in Malaga just before it was due to take off at 8.30pm on Saturday.
Nothing suspicious was found on board, but the delay meant the flight touched down at Schiphol at 3am, three and a half hours later than planned….
James Lincoln says
So, does anybody know what happened to the passenger who made the Wi-Fi hotspot threat?
࿗Infidel࿘ says
James
I don’t think it was a threat per se. There are people w/ a dark sense of humor who give their WiFi hotspots bizarre names, such as this, just to psych potential users. This person could have fallen under that category
That said, what the KLM security people should have done should have been remove him from that flight, but let the flight go ahead as planned. Once they found him harmless, they could have put him on the next flight to Schiphol, and only he would have arrived there at 3am. That way, only he, but not his co-passengers, would have been majorly inconvenienced, and he would have learned a salutary lesson to give his WiFi hotspot a more innocuous name
James Lincoln says
Good points made, Infidel.