Mumbai Frankfurt Vistara Flight: Vistara flight UK27 from Mumbai to Frankfurt (BOM-FRA) was diverted to Turkey (Erzurum airport) due to security reasons. It landed safely at 7:05 pm. However, other details like the number of passengers and crew members on board the plane could not be known immediately.

what Vistara said

According to information received, the Mumbai-Frankfurt Vistara flight was diverted to Turkey on Friday after the crew raised "security concerns" were raised by the crew on board the aircraft. The plane landed safely at Erzurum airport, and as per protocol, the relevant authorities were immediately alerted.

The crew is informed of the bomb!

Reports say that the crew received information about a bomb in the flight, after which the flight was diverted. Security checks are being conducted to prevent any untoward incident. Sources said that a note with "bomb in the plane" written on a tissue paper was found in the toilet.

Such an incident has already occurred

Earlier last week, on September 1, an IndiGo domestic flight from Jabalpur to Hyderabad was diverted to Nagpur due to a bomb threat. According to a statement from IndiGo, upon landing in Nagpur, all passengers were deboarded and mandatory security checks were started immediately.