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 the Indian capital at 9.

An Air India flight from Thailand’s Phuket island to New Delhi made an emergency landing Friday shortly after takeoff because of an on-board bomb threat, the Thai airports authority said. The incident comes a day after a London-bound Air India passenger jet crashed in the Indian city of Ahmedabad,

An Air India flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Thailand on Friday after receiving a bomb threat, a day after the airline was involved in the worst plane crash in a decade that killed over 240 people.