Taking the call seriously, the police immediately started the investigation and trying to trace the person. The cops are also in touch with Air India officials.
Senior Air India officials said the Afghanistan airspace has been declared "uncontrolled" by the Kabul airport on Monday.
The Chicago-Delhi flight will land in Sharjah for refuelling purposes, they said. The flight will then leave for Delhi again while avoiding the Afghan airspace.
Two Air India aircraft have been put on standby for emergency evacuations from Kabul.
Officials said AI-243 departed from Delhi at around 12.45 PM (Indian Standard Time) and had to hover for around one hour above the Kabul airport as it did not get permission to land from the air traffic control (ATC). They stated it was not clear what was the reason for the delay in the permission for landing of AI-243.
As crisis deepens in Afghanistan, an Air India flight will return from Kabul to Delhi tonight with a full load of passengers.
The plane had no passengers, due to the COVID-19 restrictions on international travel to certain destinations and was only carrying cargo and a crew of eight.
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UAE-based Indian businessman S P Singh Oberoi had the whole plane to himself when he boarded Air India's flight from Amritsar to Dubai.
An Air India flight to Newark in the US had to return to the Delhi airport on the morning of May 27 as cabin crew saw a bat inside the business class area of the plane just half an hour after take off, sources said on Friday.
In a communication to affected users, the national carrier said that data breach involved personal data registered between August 26, 2011 and February 20, 2021.
ICPA, a union body that represents pilots who fly narrow-body aircraft, in a letter has threatened to stop work if the airline management would not start vaccination camps across India for the flying crew immediately.
In a letter to Air India's Director of Operations RS Sandhu, ICPA said, "With no healthcare support to the flying crew, no insurance, and a massive opportunistic pay cut, we are in no position to continue risking the lives of our pilots without vaccination."
India is struggling with the second wave of the coronavirus infection as hospitals in several states are reeling under a severe shortage of drugs, equipment, oxygen and beds.
At least 30 people on board Air India's Amritsar-Rome flight last Wednesday were found positive for COVID-19 on arrival, aviation industry sources said on Monday.
Air India will bring around 600 oxygen concentrators on its two US-India flights in the next two days, aviation industry sources said on Sunday.
Britain recently imposed travel restrictions on air passengers coming from India due to the fast-spreading coronavirus variant in the South Asian country.
The much-delayed privatisation of Air India is likely to complete in the first half of this year.
The initial public offering (IPO) of India's largest insurance company LIC is likely after October this year, a top official said on Tuesday laying out the government's divestment calendar that includes completing the sale of flag carrier Air India and oil firm BPCL within the first half of the next fiscal.
Disinvestment of Air India and Pawan Hans would be completed in 2021-22, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Monday while presenting the Union Budget in which Rs 3,224 crore has been allocated to the Civil Aviation Ministry for the next fiscal year.
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