Bomb threat on Delhi-bound flight, probe underway: Police
This comes days after the Indian Air Force (IAF) had to scramble Su-30MKI fighter jets to shadow an Iranian Mahan Air flight following inputs from Lahore’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) about a possible bomb threat, which turned out to be false.
An investigation has been launched into a bomb threat against a Delhi-bound flight that landed in the national capital on early Friday morning, police said. The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) received an e-mail warning of a bomb on the Moscow-Delhi flight, reported PTI. All passengers and crew members on board the flight were immediately deboarded and the flight was checked.
Delhi Police said that a call about a bomb in the flight coming from Moscow to Delhi was received last night (File Photo / Reuters)
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“A call about a bomb in the flight coming from Moscow to Delhi was received last night. The flight landed in Delhi at around 3.20 am. All passengers and crew members were deboarded. Flight is being checked and investigation is underway,” Delhi Police said, as quoted by ANI.
A senior police official said that nothing has been found so far and the aircraft has been isolated, according to the PTI report.
This comes days after the Indian Air Force (IAF) had to scramble Su-30MKI fighter jets to shadow an Iranian Mahan Air flight following inputs from Lahore’s Air Traffic Control (ATC) about a possible bomb threat, which turned out to be false. The Mahan Air flight W581 was on its way from Tehran to Guangzhou in China when an alert was triggered.
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