from MicroWave@lemmy.world to world@lemmy.world on 15 Oct 18:37
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Abrupt landing comes a day after flight from Mumbai to New York was diverted to Delhi after a false bomb threat
An Air India plane bound for Chicago has made an abrupt landing in the Arctic city of Iqaluit, after a false bomb threat. The emergency stop before sunrise on Tuesday, came less than a day after Canada and India expelled senior diplomats in a widening feud between the two countries.
The flight’s 211 crew and passengers disembarked at the Iqaluit airport some 300km (186 miles) north of the Arctic circle, the Royal Canadian Mounted police said in a news release. According to local media in Iqaluit, an “unspecified bomb threat from a person in India to Air India” was relayed to the flight’s captain.
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Tensions between Canada and India have remained high ever since the prime minister, Justin Trudeau, accused Delhi of assassinating the prominent Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar in the province of British Columbia last year.
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Can we just cut off air travel to and from India, like nothing good comes of it these days
I knew about the assassinations and the (fully justified) diplomatic beef Canada has with India over their extralegal attacks on Sikh separatists, but still, I did not have “Indian terroristic threats towards Canada Air” on my bingo card