Singapore Airlines bomb hoax: flight from Mumbai escorted by fighter jets after pilot raised alarm
- A woman and a child were detained for questioning but police said no suspicious items were found
- Singaporean passenger Vijay Singh described the situation as ‘something right out of a movie except that it was in real life’
The Boeing 777-300 ER aircraft landed at Changi Airport at 7.54am local time, Singapore Airlines (SIA) told Channel NewsAsia.
Flight SQ423 took off from Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport on Monday at 11.36pm local time and arrived 31 minutes late, according to website FlightAware.
After the plane left Mumbai, the airline received a call claiming that there was a bomb on-board, The Straits Times reported. The plane signalled an emergency during landing and other planes around it were diverted, a map from live flight tracker website Flightradar24 showed.
A woman and a child were detained for questioning by the Singapore police. All other passengers disembarked safely and were required to undergo security screening before they could leave, The Straits Times reported.