On June 13, an Air India flight from Phuket (Thailand) to New Delhi (India) received a bomb threat on the plane and had to make an emergency landing on the island, airport authorities said.
An official from the Civil Aviation Authority of Thailand (AOT) said that all 156 passengers on AI flight 379 were safely taken out of the plane, according to the emergency plan.
According to data from Flightradar24, the plane took off from Phuket airport at 9:30 a.m. (local time) to fly to the Indian capital, but then flew a large distance around the Andaman Sea and landed again on the southern island of Thailand.
The incident occurred after an Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad on June 12 shortly after takeoff, killing more than 240 people.
AOT did not provide details about the bomb threat. Air India also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Indian airlines and airports were flooded with fake bomb threats last year, with nearly 1,000 fake calls and messages received in the first 10 months of the year, nearly 10 times as much as in 2023.
