Vistara flight from Paris gets bomb threat; lands in Mumbai amid emergency alert

A Vistara flight bound for Mumbai from Paris, carrying 306 passengers, received a bomb threat on Sunday (June 2). Consequently, a full emergency was declared at the city airport before its scheduled arrival, reported news agency PTI.

The flight landed at 10.19 am on Sunday, PTI reported quoting a source.

Vistara on Sunday reported that its "flight UK 024 from Paris' Charles de Gualle airport to Mumbai received a handwritten note on an airsickness bag threatening a bomb," said the source.

Following this, full emergency was declared at 10.08 am, the source told PTI, adding that the flight landed at 10.19 am.

"There were 294 passengers and 12 crew onboard the Paris-Mumbai flight," the source said.

Official statement

Vistara in a statement confirmed that "a security concern has been noted by our staff while onboard the airline's flight UK 024 operating from Paris to Mumbai on 2 June 2024."

“Following the protocol, we immediately informed the relevant authorities. The flight has landed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport, Mumbai and we are fully cooperating with the security agencies for all the mandatory checks,” a Vistara spokesperson said in the statement.

Hoax call

This is the latest in a spate of hoax bomb calls. On Tuesday, a Delhi to Varanasi-bound IndiGo aircraft was evacuated and taken to an isolation bay after a bomb threat.

On Saturday too, another IndiGo flight, from Chennai to Mumbai, with 172 persons on board, landed in Mumbai under “full emergency” conditions after it received a bomb threat. The flight landed around 8.45 am and after a thorough search, the bomb threat was found to be a hoax.

Several schools, hospitals and even the Tihar jail have received bomb threats in recent times, which have all turned out to be hoax.

(With agency inputs)