An IndiGo flight certain for Lucknow from Saudi Arabia’s Dammam redirected to Jaipur airport on Wednesday after it acquired a menace mail claiming to have a bomb within the airplane. Because of the safety alert, the plane was remoted, and all passengers have been safely disembarked.
Nevertheless, after checking, no suspicious object was discovered. In keeping with ANI, Flight 6E 98, working from Dammam (Saudi Arabia) to Lucknow, was redirected to Jaipur as a result of a security-related alert.
The plane was remoted, and all passengers have been safely disembarked. We’re working intently with the related authorities, and mandated checks are presently underway an IndiGo Spokesperson informed ANI.
Reportedly, the flight had 174 passengers on board with eight crew members. It took off from Dammam airport in Saudi Arabia and was scheduled to land at Lucknow airport. It was diverted to Jaipur after bomb menace mail.
In previous two day, atleast ten flights from Indian careers have acquired bomb-threat messages by means of social media handles or mail.
The threats which have been declared hoax, have prompted safety companies to undertake particular counter-terrorist drills at varied airports.
On Monday, a number of Indian Airways recieved bomb menace through an X deal with, the place seven flights from careers together with SpiceJet, Air India Specific, Akasa Air, and so on have been targetted.
This got here only a day after three flights taking off from Mumbai acquired hoax bomb threats inflicting main inconvenience for passengers and airways employees.
The seven flights that have been focused by the X deal with included Air India Specific flight from Jaipur to Bengaluru through Ayodhya (IX765), a SpiceJet flight from Darbhanga to Mumbai (SG116), an Akasa Air flight from Bagdogra to Bengaluru (QP 1373), an Air India flight from Delhi to Chicago (AI 127), an Indigo flight from Dammam (Saudi Arabia) to Lucknow (6E 98), an Alliance Air Amritsar-Dehradun-Delhi flight (9I 650) and an Air India Specific flight (IX 684) from Madurai to Singapore.