Hyderabad-bound Lufthansa flight forced to return to Germany after ‘bomb threat’

A Lufthansa flight scheduled to land in Hyderabad on Monday morning was forced to return to Frankfurt in Germany after an alleged ‘bomb scare’.

According to reports, the flight had to take a U-turn after it did not receive permission to land at the Rajiv Gandhi International Airport.

Flight LH752, a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, departed Frankfurt at 2:15 pm and was originally expected to land in Hyderabad at 6:00 am.

“We did not receive a permit to land in Hyderabad, and that's why the aircraft took a U-turn and returned,” an airline official told news agency ANI.

An official from Hyderabad airport confirmed that the flight had returned to Germany as a bomb threat was received while the aircraft was still outside Indian airspace.

In a similar incident on June 13, an Air India flight from Thailand’s Phuket to Delhi made an emergency landing on the island city after it allegedly received a bomb threat.

On Sunday, a Chennai-bound British Airways Boeing Dreamliner returned to London due to a technical snag.

The flight landed safely with crew and passengers disembarking as they normally would, British Airways said in a statement.

These incidents come amid heightened aviation safety concerns following an Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad last week, in which all but one of the 242 passengers on board were killed.

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