Air India flight carrying 156 passengers makes emergency landing in Thailand after bomb threat
An Air India flight has made an emergency landing in Thailand after receiving a bomb threat.
Flight AI 379, travelling from Thailand's Phuket to India's capital, New Delhi, was carrying 156 passengers when the threat was received on Friday, Phuket Airport said.
Aviation tracking site Flightradar24 shows the plane circling over the Andaman Sea before landing back on the Thai island.
Passengers were escorted from the plane in accordance with emergency protocols.
The aircraft took off at 9.30am local time (12.30pm AEST), and was scheduled to land at 12.40pm local time (5pm AEST).
The incident occurred less than 24 hours
after an Air India flight crashed
in India's western city of Ahmedabad.
At least 290 people died when flight AI171 crashed
into a residential area shortly after take-off.
Among those killed were passengers on the flight, including minors, local residents, and people inside the BJ Medical College and Hospital hostel when the plane crashed into it.
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