The Royal Air Force on Thursday scrambled a Typhoon fighter jet to intercept an Air India aircraft that received a bomb threat

The Royal Air Force on Thursday scrambled a Typhoon fighter jet to intercept an Air India aircraft that received a bomb threat and the plane later landed safely in London.

Earlier on Wednesday, seven flights of IndiGo, SpiceJet and Akasa received similar bomb threats. Prior to that, nearly a dozen flights operated by Indian carriers received similar threats on Monday and Tuesday.

The airline official said the flight landed safely at London Heathrow airport

Residents say they heard a loud sonic boom as Typhoon jets scrambled.

The agencies have also found some common lines and words used in these fake threats like 'bombs', 'blood will spread everywhere', 'explosive devices', 'this is not a joke' and 'you will all die' and 'bomb rakhwa dia hai' (Hindi for bomb has been placed) among others.

RAF typhoon fighter jets scrambled to meet flight AIC129 from Mumbai in the air as it made its way into Heathrow due to the active bomb threat alert.

The Air India flight from Mumbai declared the emergency above the south east coast of the UK

A 'sonic boom' has been heard over Norfolk after an RAF Typhoon raced to intercept a Heathrow-bound flight following a 'bomb threat' on board.

The pattern of domestic airlines receiving bomb threats to their flights continued for the fourth day as two international flights, one each of Vistara and IndiGo, were targeted similarly on Thursday.

New Delhi: In yet another instance, Vistara’s Frankfurt-Mumbai flight received a bomb threat on social media. In this case, the pilot declared a general emergency. The flight landed safely at the Mumbai airport early Thursday. This takes the count of bomb threats received by Indian carriers this week to 20 flights. While the security checks […]

Plane lands safely in Mumbai

Mumbai: There is no end to the spate of threats to flights being operated by various Indian airlines. The latest of around 2 dozen such threats in the last few days is slightly different in the sense that an Air India flight from Mumbai to London declared an emergency on board an hour before landing after […]

The pattern of domestic airlines receiving bomb threats to their flights continued for the fourth day as two international flights, one each of Vistara and IndiGo, were targeted in the similar manner on Thursday.

The Boeing 787 aircraft was immediately taken to the isolation bay for mandatory security checks, according to the statement released by Vistara Airlines. The flight landed safely at 7.45 am.

Bomb threat to Vistara flight from Frankfurt to Mumbai; aircraft makes emergency landing in Mumbai

A Mumbai-bound Vistara flight with 147 persons on board made an emergency landing here on Wednesday upon its arrival from Frankfurt in Germany following a bomb threat to the aircraft, a source said.

New Delhi: A Bengaluru-bound Akasa Air flight with more than 180 people on board returned to the national capital on Wednesday afternoon following a bomb threat, according to sources. The sources...

Mumbai: A Riyadh-Mumbai flight of IndiGo was diverted to Muscat following a "security alert" on Wednesday morning and it landed safely, the airline said