Kochi-Delhi IndiGo flight makes emergency landing at Nagpur after bomb scare
A meeting was convened, as per procedure, and found that threat was specific as flight number was given. The flight had already taken off from Kochi, and thus it was diverted to Nagpur. Earlier in the day, an Air India flight from San Francisco to Mumbai via Kolkata, suffered a technical snag in one of its engines, forcing passengers to deplane during the scheduled halt in the West Bengal capital.On Monday evening, another Delhi-bound Air India flight returned to Hong Kong nearly 90 minutes after take-off after a suspected technical glitch was detected in the aircraft. The Air India flight AI 315 took-off for Delhi from Hong Kong International Airport on Monday morning.On Sunday evening (June 15), a Lufthansa flight to Hyderabad returned to Frankfurt, after a bomb threat email was received at Hyderabad airport. The flight had not yet entered Indian airspace when the threat was received.advertisementSince the Air India London-bound flight crashed on June 12 moments after take-off from Ahmedabad, there has been heightened security and concern regarding flights.
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Indian Express
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