After a security alert onboard, a Delhi-Mumbai Akasa Air flight was diverted to Ahmedabad on Monday morning. Up to 186 passengers, including an infant, and six crew members boarded the aircraft.
The aircraft made a safe landing at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport at around 10.13 a.m. after being diverted to Ahmedabad. At the airport, all passengers were evacuated.
“The captain followed all required emergency procedures and made the landing at the airport. Akasa Air is following and supporting all safety and security protocols on the ground,” a spokesperson of Akasa Air said.
In the last three days, threats or security alerts have forced several flights operated by various airlines to make emergency landings.
A Vistara aircraft carrying 306 passengers and crew members arrived in Mumbai on Sunday under a full emergency alert after receiving a “handwritten” bomb threat.
In a similar incident that occurred on Saturday evening, airport officials at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport responded quickly after receiving a bomb threat on an IndiGo flight from Varanasi to Delhi.
After receiving yet another bomb threat, an IndiGo flight from Chennai to Mumbai had to make an emergency landing at the Mumbai airport. After that, the aircraft was parked in an isolation bay in accordance with security protocols.
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