An Air India flight from Phuket, Thailand, to New Delhi was forced to make an emergency landing shortly after takeoff on Friday following a bomb threat, according to Thailand’s airport authority.
The pilot of the Airbus A320 alerted air traffic control after discovering a message suggesting the presence of a bomb on board.
Phuket Airports confirmed the incident in a statement posted on its official Facebook page. Flight tracking data from FlightRadar24 showed the plane made a U-turn over the Andaman Sea shortly after departure, circling several times off the coast before returning to Phuket airport.
This scare came just a day after a separate Air India flight bound for London crashed in Ahmedabad, India, resulting in at least 265 fatalities, including both passengers and people on the ground.
