A complete emergency has been declared at Thiruvananthapuram airport on Thursday after a bomb threat on an Air India flight arriving from Mumbai. The flight landed at the airport at around 8 am and was reportedly directed to an isolation bay and passengers were safely evacuated by 8.44 am.
According to News agency PTI, a “Bomb in flight” message — written on a tissue paper — was found in the washroom of the plane.There were 135 passengers on board, and further details on the threat’s origin and other information are still underway, PTI reported.
Following the message, a full emergency was declared at the airport at 7:36 am. As per the reports of PTI, there has been no impact on life and airport operations are currently uninterrupted.
“A specific security alert was detected on Air India flight AI657 during cruise from Mumbai to Thiruvananthapuram on August 22. The flight has landed safely in Thiruvananthapuram and has been parked in a remote bay for the mandatory checks by security agencies. All passengers and crew disembarked safely,” ANI quoted an Air India spokesperson as saying.
Indira Gandhi International Airport also on High Alert?
Authorities detained a 13 year old boy for allegedly sending an email to Delhi Airport falsely claiming that a bomb had been planted on a Dubai-bound flight on June 17.
An emergency was declared by airport authorities upon receiving the email, and Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport was placed on high alert.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (IGI Airport) Usha Rangnani said that the boy sent the email “just for fun” after being influenced by news of another teenager who had made a hoax bomb threat call a few days earlier.
Bomb threat to 41 other Airport
Earlier on June 18, 41 airports including those in Jaipur, Chennai and Varanasi received bomb threats over emails. This led to extensive anti-sabotage checks that lasted for hours, but all the threats were found to be hoaxes.
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