Another Indian Plane Forced to Make Emergency Landing Day After Tragic Crash Killed 265 People
By: Olufemi Orunsola
Barely a day after a London-bound Air India passenger plane crashed in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, killing at least 265 people, another Air India flight from Thailand’s Phuket Island to New Delhi was forced to make an emergency landing today after takeoff due to an onboard bomb threat.
OPEN TELEVISION NAIJA (OTN) News reports as gathered from AFP that Thailand airports authority on its Facebook page for Phuket said that the pilot of the Airbus A320 radioed air traffic control that a bomb threat message had been found on board.
Flight tracking website FlightRadar24 shows the Phuket flight making a U-turn over the Andaman Sea soon after takeoff, then circling multiple times off the island’s coast before landing.
OTN News recalls that Indian authorities had confirmed that only one person among the 242 passengers aboard the Indian air bird that crashed on Thursday survived the catastrophic air mishap.
Source: AFP
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