Bomb threats disrupt Delhi flights

A bomb threat disrupted three international flights from New Delhi‘s Indira Gandhi International Airport on Saturday.

The Economic Times reports that a threatening call was made to Delhi Airport’s call centre in Gurgaon in the early hours of Saturday morning, claiming that bombs has been placed on three international flights: a Jet Airways service to Hong Kong, a Cathay Pacific flight to Hong Kong and a SWISS flight to Zurich.

The Jet and Cathay flights had already departed and were forced to return to Delhi, where they were evacuated and searched. The SWISS flight was yet to depart, and was also taken away for inspection.

“The Bomb Threat Assessment Committee declared threat as specific at 2am. Both the Jet Airways and Cathay flights were called back and taken to isolation bay after landing under emergency conditions. Swiss Air flight which was on-ground was also sent to isolation bay,” the Economic Times cited an unnamed source at Delhi Airport as saying.

The threats, which turned out to be hoaxes, followed a similar bomb threat made against Air India on Friday.

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