{"id":54460,"date":"2025-06-13T12:21:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T12:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/air-india-flight-makes-emergency-landing-in-thailand-after-bomb-threat\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T12:23:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T12:23:50","slug":"air-india-flight-makes-emergency-landing-in-thailand-after-bomb-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/air-india-flight-makes-emergency-landing-in-thailand-after-bomb-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India flight makes emergency landing in Thailand after bomb threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Airport said the Air India flight AI 379, with 156 passengers on board, had taken off from Phuket bound for India&#8217;s Delhi when the pilot reported a bomb threat message on board and requested to make an emergency landing, prompting the airport to activate its contingency plan.<\/p>\n<p>An airport official told Xinhua that the plane has since safely landed. Monchai Tanode, general manager of Phuket Airport, told reporters that the pilot reported to air traffic control that a crew member found a note with a suspected bomb threat in the plane&#8217;s lavatory.<\/p>\n<p>The airport said all passengers have been disembarked, and the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams have started thorough searches for any explosives or suspicious items on the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The incident comes a day after more than 240 people were killed in an [Air India Boeing 787 crash ->https:\/\/en.igihe.com\/news\/article\/air-india-plane-with-242-on-board-crashes-near-india-s-ahmedabad-airport#:~:text=A%20London%2Dbound%20Air%20India,calling%20a%20major%20aviation%20disaster.] shortly after takeoff from Ahmedabad\u2019s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-89062 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/image-9.jpg\" alt=\"An Air India flight from Thailand to India was forced to make an emergency landing after receiving a bomb threat just one day after a London-bound flight crashed and claimed 242 lives.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Air India flight from Thailand&#8217;s resort island of Phuket to Delhi requested an emergency landing on Friday due to a bomb threat, Phuket&#8217;s airport said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000089063,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000089063,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/image.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/image.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/image.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/image.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/image.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/image.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54460\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000089063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54460"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54460"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}