Person who tweeted about bomb threat in Jet Airways flight to Dubai arrested

NEW DELHI: The person who tweeted about a bomb on a Jet Airways flight to Dubai has been arrested, the airline has informed the Directorate General of Civil Aviation ( DGCA) today.

“The person who tweeted yesterday's bomb threat message on Jet Airways Dubai flight has been traced & arrested by local police in a town about 40 kms from Jaipur,” said a DGCA official.

A Jet Airways Mumbai-Dubai flight had to be diverted to Muscat Thursday due to a bomb threat. The flight 9W 536, with 54 passengers and 7 crew on board landed at Muscat at 1.20 pm local time (2:50 pm IST).

On Tuesday, a Turkish Airlines flight TK 65 flying between Bangkok and Istanbul made an emergency land at Delhi airport due to a bomb threat on board. No bomb was, however, found in the plane and it departed subsequently.