An indigo flight that was traveling from the Muscat from Oman to New Delhi made an emergency landing in the state of Maharashtra in the city of Nagpur of India on Tuesday after receiving a bomb threat, according to the Indian media.
The flight left the city of Kochi in India, where it had a scale, for the Delhi airport that transported 157 passengers and six crew members at 9:31 am ist (9:01 am PKT). Cochin International Airport Ltd. (Cial) said the threat was received in its official email address, Press Trust of India reported.
All passengers of the Indigo flight had been safely landed, according to the attached police commissioner of Nagpur, Lohit Matani.
While an investigation was underway, the preliminary controls found nothing suspicious, authorities said.
After the Cial airport received the threat of the bomb, a bomb threat assessment (BTAC) evaluation committee was convened and the threat was declared as “specific.”
According to ANIA similar incident occurred on Monday, where an LH752 flight from Lufthansa scheduled to fly from Frankfurt to Hyderabad from India, was forced to return to Germany after a bomb threat was received through an email at Hyderabad airport at 6:01 pm isth (5:31 PM PKT) on June 15.
A committee was formed to evaluate the threat according to the standard operating procedure.
On June 13, an Air India AI 379 flight flying from Phuket to New Delhi with 156 passengers on board also received a bomb threat and was forced to land on the island of southern Thailand after making a wide circuit around the Andaman sea.
The incident followed the accident on an Air India flight in Ahmedabad on June 12, shortly after takeoff, killing at least 271 people, including almost 30 people on the ground.
The threat of the bomb diverts the plane of the haj pilgrims within Indonesia
Separately, an airplane that transported hundreds of Pilgrims from Haj from Saudi Arabia was diverted in Indonesia today after a threat of email pump to the authorities was sent, said the Indonesian aviation body.
The General Directorate of Civil Aviation said he received a report from the operator of the Indonesian airport “with respect to a bomb threat sent by an unidentified person by email.”
The email at 7:30 am (5:30 am PKT) contained a threat to “fly” the flight of Saudia Airlines SV 5276, which flew from Jeddah to the Indonesian capital Yakarta, said in a statement.
After 10 am (8 am PKT), the pilot diverted the plane from its destination from the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport of Yakarta to the Kualanamu International Airport in Medan, a city on the island of Sumatra in west Indonesia.
The flight carried 442 Pilgrims of Haj, including 207 men and 235 women, he added.
“By identifying security and safety threats, the pilot decided to divert the landing to the nearest airport,” said Airports de Indonesia, the airport operator.
An official of the Ministry of Transportation said AFP The plane was still in Medan and Flightradar24 He showed the plane there.
The airport evacuated the pilgrims, and a pump removal unit swept the plane in search of explosive devices, said the aviation body in its statement.
