IndiGo Nagpur-Kolkata Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Raipur After Bomb Threat

Raipur: A Kolkata-bound IndiGo flight with 187 passengers and six crew members onboard me an emergency landing at Raipur airport on Thursday morning following a bomb threat to aircraft, police said.

aircraft, which h taken off from Nagpur for Kolkata, was diverted after airport authorities received threat, Raipur's Senior Superintendent of Police Santosh Singh said.

plane landed at airport in Chhattisgarh capital Raipur after 9 am and was immediately taken to isolation bay for mandatory security checks, official said.

aircraft was being thoroughly checked by technical staff and bomb squ, he said. 

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