New Delhi: A plane coming from Moscow to Goa has received a bomb threat. The Goa airport director has received the threat via email. After this, the aircraft was diverted to Uzbekistan before entering the Indian airspace. The flight is being investigated after landing in Uzbekistan.
Azur Air, with 247 passengers on board, landed safely at an airport in Uzbekistan, officials said. This is the second case when a Goa-bound flight has been diverted out of fear after it threatened to blow up such a bomb.
In early January, a charter plane of Azure Air was reported to have been bombed, following which the aircraft was diverted to Jamnagar in Gujarat. There were 236 passengers on board.
Flight AZV2463, operated by Azur Air, was scheduled to land at Dabolim airport in South Goa at 4.15 am but was diverted to Uzbekistan before it could enter the Indian airspace, they said.
“The director of Dabolim airport received an email at 12.30 am mentioning that there was a bomb on the aircraft. The incident comes nearly two weeks after a Moscow-Goa flight made an emergency landing at Gujarat’s Jamnagar airport following a bomb threat, he said.
The Russian embassy said in a statement that Indian authorities had been alerted about a bomb threat input on an Azur Air flight from Moscow via Goa.