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A few days earlier, a Vistara flight arriving in Mumbai from Frankfurt with 147 passengers and crew had to make an emergency landing and undergo security checks in an isolation bay after a bomb scare.
On Oct. 14, an Air India flight bound for New York was diverted shortly after takeoff from Mumbai, India’s financial capital, after it received a bomb threat, making an emergency landing in Delhi.
On 9 December 2024, over 40 schools in Delhi received emails of bomb threats demanding a ransom of $30,000 and saying or else students would be injured by multiple small hidden explosives, causing school evacuations and widespread panic. [36] Also on 9 December, six hotels in Gurugram received bomb threats causing panic. Bomb squads and police ...
6 September – Vistara Airlines Flight VTI027 going from Mumbai to Frankfurt makes an emergency landing at Erzurum Airport after receiving a bomb threat that turns out negative. [58] 9 September – The Turkish Ministry of Defense announces that a Turkish soldier was killed in clashes with the PKK in northern Iraq. [59]
Even though the plane was already over international waters off the U.S. East Coast by then, the captain decided to return to Toronto. Due to the bomb threat, North American Air Defense Command assigned two Royal Canadian Air Force CF-18 fighter jets to escort the plane back to Pearson Airport once it re-entered
Assistant police commissioner Sayed Areeb Ahmad said the threat turned out to be a hoax after a thorough inspection of the premises. “The email claimed a bomb had been planted at the Taj Mahal.
Air France Flight 406 exploded and shattered into pieces when a bomb was smuggled inside its cargo on 10 May 1961, killing all 78 on board. TWA Flight 847, a Boeing 727-231, was hijacked shortly after takeoff on June 14, 1985. One person was killed. Air France Flight 8969 was hijacked on the ground at Algiers and flown to France on 24 December ...
The flight was en route to Frankfurt from Mumbai, India, when the flight was hijacked on the ground in Karachi. On 19 February 2016, the Bollywood movie Neerja, based on this hijacking, was released. December 25, 1986: 63 people were killed when Iraqi Airways Flight 163 crashed near Arar, Saudi Arabia due to an explosion in the cockpit.