: A bomb threat was received on an Air India flight that was bound for New Delhi from Kathmandu on Saturday, officials from the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal said. The flight- AI 215 that arrived from New Delhi to Kathmandu’s Tribhuvan International Airport on Saturday afternoon received the threats, as per Police official Dambar Bahadur BK. According to CAAN officials, a search is underway in the Indian airlines flight that was scheduled to take off for Delhi from Kathmandu.
“We have received a bomb threat on an Indian Airlines flight that was bound for New Delhi from Kathmandu. Search operation deploying the Nepal Police and the Army is underway,” Dambar Bahadur BK, Chief of Police at the airport confirmed ANI. The flight had landed Nepali capital at 3:39pm (NPT) on Saturday with 168 passengers on board.
Within an hour of arrival in Kathmandu, the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN) received the threats activating the security protocol. “The luggage of the passengers was already loaded into the aircraft and the passengers also have boarded the aircraft. All the items on board has been unloaded as well as passengers are also being checked after the threat which has delayed the flight,” the police official further added.
Earlier on Monday, Nepal received a bomb hoax call on an Air India flight AI 216 that was set to return to New Delhi on Monday. It was the second hoax call that Nepal’s Tribhuvan International Airport has received within a week, officials.