{"id":67264,"date":"2024-10-16T01:46:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T16:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/15\/air-india-flight-bomb-threat-emergency-landing"},"modified":"2024-10-16T01:46:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T16:46:08","slug":"air-india-plane-makes-emergency-landing-in-canada-after-bomb-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67264","title":{"rendered":"Air India plane makes emergency landing in Canada after bomb threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abrupt landing comes a day after flight from Mumbai to New York was diverted to Delhi after a false bomb threat<\/p>\n<p>An Air India plane bound for Chicago has made an abrupt landing in the Arctic city of Iqaluit, after a false bomb threat. The emergency stop before sunrise on Tuesday, came less than a day after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/14\/india-canada-expel-top-diplomats-escalating-row-sikh-activists-death-hardeep-singh-nijjar\">Canada and India expelled senior diplomats<\/a> in a widening feud between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>The flight\u2019s 211 crew and passengers disembarked at the Iqaluit airport some 300km (186 miles) north of the Arctic circle, the Royal Canadian Mounted police said in a news release. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nunavutnews.com\/home\/air-india-bomb-threat-forces-emergency-landing-in-iqaluit-7587639\">According to local media<\/a> in Iqaluit, an \u201cunspecified bomb threat from a person in India to Air India\u201d was relayed to the flight\u2019s captain.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/oct\/15\/air-india-flight-bomb-threat-emergency-landing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abrupt landing comes a day after flight from Mumbai to New York was diverted to Delhi after a false bomb threatAn Air India plane bound for Chicago has made an abrupt landing in the Arctic city of Iqaluit, after a false bomb threat. The emergency stop &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":483,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[246,244,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americas","category-canada","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/483"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67264"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67287,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67264\/revisions\/67287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}