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A day after an Air India flight crashed in Ahmedabad, a Delhi-bound Air India flight made an emergency landing in Thailand’s Phuket on Friday.
The Air India flight made the emergency landing after in the wake of a bomb threat, according to Reuters.
The flight took from Phuket for Delhi at 9.30 am, but made a wide loop around the Andaman Sea and landed back on the airport.
Follow our live coverage of the Ahmedabad plane crash hereIn the Ahmedabad plane crash, Air India flight AI 171 crashed into residential quarters of BJ Medical College minutes after taking off. At least 265 bodies have been recovered, which include bodies from the occupants of the plane as well as from the buildings the plane struck. Only one passenger survived the crash.
In the case of the Phuket-Delhi flight, all 156 passengers were escorted from the plane in line with emergency plans, an official told the agency.
Thai authorities did not provide any details of the bomb threat.
Last year, there were nearly 1,000 hoax calls related to threats to Indian airlines and airports.
In the Ahmedabad plane crash, four MBBS students and a doctor’s wife were among those killed by the plane’s impact.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah said that it was not possible to save anyone as the temperature inside the plane after the crash was too high because of the fuel the plane was carrying.
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More Shorts“There was 1.25 lakh litres of fuel inside the plane and it caught heat so it was impossible to save anyone. The number of those killed will be officially released by the authorities after DNA test and identification of the victims,” said Shah.