A number of airways throughout the globe cancelled their flights after security checks, whereas a bunch of others reported mid-flight scares amid hostile climate situations and technical snags prior to now 72 hours. Airways are possible on excessive alert following the deadly Air India crash in Ahmedabad final week that claimed the lives of 241 passengers and crew members, in addition to resulting in a number of casualties on the bottom. Air India has confirmed that it has cancelled its London-Amritsar, Delhi-Dubai, Bengaluru-London and Mumbai-San Francisco flights on Tuesday. A number of of the affected flights are:
📌 Indigo Goa-Lucknow: On Monday, an IndiGo flight from Goa to Lucknow skilled mid-air turbulence on account of hostile climate situations. Nevertheless, the crew navigated the plane safely, the airline stated in an announcement on Tuesday.
📌 IndiGo Kochi-Delhi: One other IndiGo flight from Kochi to Delhi was compelled to make an emergency touchdown at Nagpur on Tuesday morning after a reported bomb menace. The flight, 6E 2706, had taken off from Kochi at 9:20 am and was scheduled to reach in Delhi by 12:35 pm.
📌 Air India San Francisco-Mumbai: The worldwide route was additionally impacted as a Mumbai-bound Air India flight from San Francisco was halted in Kolkata early Tuesday after certainly one of its engines suffered a technical snag, information company PTI reported.
📌 Air India Ahmedabad-London: Further precautionary checks additionally led to an Air India flight on the Ahmedabad-London route being cancelled on account of lack of plane. The flight began working with a brand new code after the June 12 crash of AI-171 airplane however unavailability of plane, ensuing from airspace curbs and extra precautionary checks, led to the cancellation of flights.
The Tata Group-owned airline denied claims {that a} technical snag led to the cancellation and maintained it has made different preparations to fly affected passengers to their vacation spot and providing full refunds on cancellations or complimentary rescheduling if opted by them, PTI reported.
📌 Air India New Delhi-Hong Kong: An Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner sure for New Delhi from Hong Kong on Monday (June 16), returned to its origin as a precautionary measure after the pilot suspected a technical problem mid-air, information company Reuters reported, citing sources. The flight AI315 is now reportedly present process checks. It departed from Hong Kong at 12:16 pm and landed simply over an hour later.
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📌 Lufthansa Frankfurt-Hyderabad: A Lufthansa flight to Hyderabad was compelled to make a U-turn and land at Frankfurt Airport on account of a bomb menace. “A bomb menace e mail focusing on Lufthansa flight LH 752 was obtained on the Hyderabad airport at 18:01 hrs on fifteenth June 2025,” information company PTI quoted Hyderabad airport sources as saying. Flight LH752 took off from Germany on Sunday (June 15) at round 14.14 native time and was scheduled to reach at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi Worldwide Airport within the early hours of Monday.
“Out of an abundance of warning, Lufthansa flight LH752 from Frankfurt to Hyderabad returned to its level of departure after authorities had been made conscious of a bomb menace posted on social media,” Lufthansa stated in an announcement.
📌 British Airways London-Chennai: British Airways’ Boeing 787 Dreamliner was compelled to return to London Heathrow Airport on Sunday over a “technical problem”. The Chennai-bound Flight BA35 got here again to its origin in simply 1 hour 38 minutes. “The plane returned to Heathrow as a regular precaution after studies of a technical problem,” British Airways stated in an announcement. “The flight landed safely with crew and clients disembarking as they usually would, and our groups labored arduous to get their journeys again on monitor as quickly as doable,” the assertion added.
📌 Saudia Jeddah-Lucknow (Hajj flight): Smoke was detected from the wheels of a Saudia Airways airplane that landed in Lucknow carrying Haj pilgrims on Sunday morning (June 15). “Smoke was detected from the wheels of a Saudi Plane that was bringing again 242 Haj Yatris from Jeddah,” information company PTI quoted sources as saying. “The Plane Rescue and Hearth Preventing (ARFF) crew rushed to the spot. Working with the Saudia crew, the smoke was contained and harm to the plane was averted,” they stated.
(With inputs from PTI, Reuters)