A United Airlines flight that took off from South Carolina had to make an emergency landing in Louisiana on Tuesday. Sister station WAFB said the airplane departed from Charleston Tuesday morning, but mechanical problems forced it to land at the Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport.

A Vistara flight with 147 people aboard made an emergency landing in Mumbai after a bomb threat. The Boeing 787 arrived from Frankfurt, and passengers were safely disembarked. Authorities were notified promptly,

Twin bomb threats hit Indian airliners on opposite sides of the globe on Tuesday, forcing an emergency landing in the Arctic and fighter jets to scramble in Asia – the latest in a series of similar hoax scares for the country’s airlines.

Singapore ’s military scrambled two fighter jets after an Air India Express plane bound for the Changi airport received a bomb threat, the latest in a string of apparent hoaxes that have disrupted journeys for hundreds of passengers from India this week.

Air India's flight AI127 from Delhi to Chicago made an emergency landing on Oct 15 due to a security threat posted online. The unscheduled touchdown at Iqaluit Airport in Canada was made “as a precautionary measure”.

An Air India flight bound for the United States was forced to make an emergency landing in Canada on Tuesday after a false bomb threat was posted online. On October 15, Air India flight 127 made an emergency landing in Iqaluit,