Immediate emergency alert at Mumbai airport after bomb threat to Vistara flight

A source reported that there was a bomb threat on a Vistara flight from Paris with 306 passengers on board, resulting in a state of emergency being declared at the city’s airport before it arrived in Mumbai.

The flight landed at 10:19 a.m. on Sunday, the source said.

Vistara reported on Sunday that on its “flight UK 024 from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport to Mumbai, a handwritten note on a vomit bag containing a bomb threat arrived,” the source said.

A state of emergency was then declared at 10:08 a.m., the source said, adding that the flight landed at 10:19 a.m.

“There were 294 passengers and 12 crew members on board the Paris-Mumbai flight,” the source said.

Vistara confirmed in a statement that “our personnel identified a safety concern onboard the airline’s flight UK 024 from Paris to Mumbai on June 2, 2024.”

In accordance with protocol, the airline immediately informed the relevant authorities, a Vistara spokesman said in the statement.

It also said that the flight landed at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai and that the airline was fully cooperating with security authorities in all mandatory checks.