An Air India flight from Phuket in Thailand to India's capital New Delhi received an onboard bomb threat on Friday and made an emergency landing on the island, airport authorities said. All 156 passengers on flight AI 379 had been escorted from the plane,

An Air India plane has been forced to make an emergency landing in Thailand, Phuket, after receiving an onboard bomb threat during a flight from the island to India's capital, New Delhi.

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,