A full emergency was declared at Thiruvananthapuram airport on Thursday after a bomb threat on a Air India flight which had departed from Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, reported news agency PTI.
Air India’s flight AI657 Mumbai-Thiruvananthapuram was put in in an isolation bay, and passengers were being evacuated following the threat.
The threat was communicated by the pilot as the aircraft neared Thiruvananthapuram airport. There were 135 passengers on board, and further information on the threat’s origin and other details are still pending, the news agency said.
The airport also issued a statement saying that the aircraft reported a bomb threat at 07:30 am on Thursday. It said that the flight landed safely and was parked at the isolation bay where the evacuation process was initiated.
“AI 657 (BOM-TRV) reported a bomb threat at 0730 hours on August 22, 2024. Full emergency declared at TRV Airport at 0736 hours. The aircraft landed safely. It is now parked at the Isolation Bay, where the evacuation process has begun. There has been no impact on life. Airport operations are currently uninterrupted,” it said.
Earlier in June, a similar bomb threat on Paris-Mumbai Vistara flight with 306 people onboard created a chaos after which a full emergency alert was declared at Mumbai Airport before its arrival.
Vistara said that its flight UK 024 from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris to Mumbai received a handwritten note on an airsickness bag threatening a bomb. Following this, a full emergency was declared. The aircraft had landed safely.
These incidents came amid a recent uptick in bomb scares on planes, hospitals, schools and malls across the country.
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