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Now, A Bomb Threat To Air India Flight An Hour Before Landing!

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 receiving a bomb threat.

The aircraft was ‘squawking 7700’ — a code which pilots use to declare a general emergency.

FlightRadar24, the online flight tracking website, showed the Boeing 777 aircraft taking off at 7.05 am (IST) from Mumbai and circling over East England when emergency was declared an hour before landing.

Flight AI-129 was scheduled to land at London’s Heathrow airport at 12.05 pm UK time (4.35 pm IST).

Latest information from FlightRadar24 showed the aircraft the aircraft wasn’t ‘Squawking 7700’, and has landed at Heathrow Airport.

Four other Air India flights, two Vistara (including an international flight) and two IndiGo flights also received bomb threats on Thursday.

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