An Air India flight from Phuket to New Delhi was forced to make an emergency landing Friday morning after receiving a bomb threat, a day after one of the airline’s jets crashed in India, killing more than 260 people. All 156 passengers on board Flight AI 379, operated by Air India subsidiary Vistara, were safely evacuated back in Phuket, according to Reuters. The incident comes amid national mourning in India following the catastrophic crash of Flight 171 on Thursday, shortly after taking off from Ahmedabad. Harrowing CCTV footage shows the Boeing 787 Dreamliner managing just 32 seconds in the air before plummeting to the ground and igniting in a fireball. Only one person, a British national, survived. Indian authorities have launched a formal investigation into both the crash and the new bomb threat. Indian airlines and airports received huge numbers of hoax bomb threats last year—wth nearly 1,000 received in the first 10 months, almost 10 times the 2023 number, reported Reuters.
The post Air India Flight Makes Emergency Landing Day After Deadly Crash appeared first on The Daily Beast