Indian passenger plane makes emergency landing in Turkey after bomb threat

A flight operated by Indian Vistara Airways carrying 247 passengers made an emergency landing on Friday in the jap Turkish metropolis of Erzurum after an anonymous caller mentioned there turned into once a bomb on board, utter-owned broadcaster TRT Haber mentioned.

Authorities had evacuated the plane and were shopping for explosives, it mentioned.

The plane had been flying to Frankfurt, Germany, from Mumbai, India.

“Flight UK27 from Mumbai to Frankfurt (BOM-FRA) has been diverted to Turkey (Erzurum airport) as a result of protection causes and has landed safely at 1905 hours,” Vistara Airways mentioned in a put up on X.

Erzurum airspace turned into once closed to flights, Erzurum Governor Musrafa Ciftci suggested the utter-urge Anadolu files agency, adding that bomb disposal experts were investigating the plane.