Bomb threat on Indian plane was ‘fake’
According to Webangah News quoted by Mehr News Agency According to Reuters, Mustafa Çifchi, the governor of Erzurum, Turkey, referring to the emergency landing of an Indian passenger plane at Erzurum airport and the evacuation of passengers due to the discovery of documents With the theme of threatening to bomb, he said that this threat was false.
Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced last night that a passenger plane belonging to the Indian Vistara Airlines was grounded at Erzurum Airport after a piece of paper containing a bomb threat was found. has been discharged. The Turkish authorities announced that the discovered paper was embedded in the lavatory of the plane.
Two bomb disposal experts and a dog are searching the plane, according to Yerlikaya. According to him, 234 passengers and 13 crew members of this plane were evacuated safely.
The spokesperson of Vistara company confirmed the emergency landing of this plane in Erzurum and said: “UK flight 27, on its way from Mumbai to Frankfurt, was diverted to Turkey for security reasons.” gave Per protocols, the relevant authorities were immediately notified and we are fully cooperating with the security agencies to complete the required security checks.”
Turkey’s Transport Minister Abd al-Kadir Uraloglu also wrote in “X” that the arrival and departure of flights at Erzurum Airport has been temporarily stopped. The said plane was traveling from Bombay to Frankfurt, which changed its direction in the middle of the way to Erzurum.
However, Chifchi said in an interview with reporters: “The search is over by 23:30 local time.” And we have completed the survey and inspection operations. As a result of these investigations, we came to the conclusion that the bomb threat was unfounded.
According to him, the temporary ban on the entry and exit of flights to Erzurum Airport was imposed as a precautionary measure. , it is now fixed.
