Police receive bomb threat on a flight out of Vancouver airport; ‘no credible evidence’ of a bomb found

The Richmond RCMP says it received reports of a bomb threat on a flight out of Vancouver International Airport (YVR) Sunday afternoon.

Spokesperson Corp. Brett Urano says the threats were received via email from an unknown sender to YVR staff and a local news agency.

“The RCMP and YVR took the threat seriously and conducted a complete sweep to the affected flight, but found no credible evidence of any bomb on the plane,” Urano said.

“Airport operations were minimally affected and only the flight in question was delayed. The RCMP takes threats like this seriously and believes these emails were a ‘swatting’ call.”

This comes just hours after a bomb threat and Vancouver’s Waterfront Station, but Urano says they haven’t found evidence to show there is a connection between the two incidents.

“We haven’t determined if there’s any connection at all,” he said.

“We have yet to identify if there was any connection whatsoever.”

Anyone with any information about this is asked to call the Richmond RCMP at 604-278-1212 and quote police file 2025-14689.