An Air India flight from Phuket in Thailand to India's capital New Delhi received an onboard bomb threat and made an emergency landing on the island, airport authorities said.
All 156 passengers on flight AI 379 had been escorted from the plane, in line with emergency plans, an Airports of Thailand official said.
The aircraft took off from Phuket Airport bound for New Delhi on Friday, but made a wide loop around the Andaman Sea and landed back on the southern Thai island, according to flight tracker Flightradar24.
The incident follows the crash of an Air India flight in Ahmedabad on Thursday shortly after takeoff, in which more than 240 people were killed.
Airports of Thailand did not provide details on the bomb threat.
Indian airlines and airports were inundated with hoax bomb threats last year, with nearly 1,000 hoax calls and messages received in the first 10 months, nearly 10 times that of 2023.
The Indian government is considering grounding Air India's Boeing 787 fleet, as reported by Indian broadcaster NDTV, a day after the crash, believed to be the first deadly accident for Boeing's Dreamliner.
