{"id":11125,"date":"2022-10-03T13:45:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-03T13:45:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=11125"},"modified":"2022-10-03T13:45:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T13:45:04","slug":"indian-jets-scramble-after-false-bomb-scare-on-iran-airliner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/indian-jets-scramble-after-false-bomb-scare-on-iran-airliner\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian jets scramble after false bomb scare on Iran airliner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian jets scramble after false bomb scare on Iran airliner. Indian military jets were scrambled on Monday after a bomb alert on an Iranian airliner that turned out to be false, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indian_Air_Force\">Indian Air Force<\/a> (IAF) said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;IAF fighter aircraft were scrambled, which followed the aircraft at a safe distance. The aircraft was offered the option to land at Jaipur &amp; then, at Chandigarh,&#8221; the IAF said in a statement, referring to two airports in northern India.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/as-unrest-grows-iran-restricts-access-to-instagram-whatsapp.html\">As unrest grows, Iran restricts access to Instagram &amp; WhatsApp<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The statement said the pilot was unwilling to divert to either airport, and that instructions were later received to disregard the threat.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After a while, intimation was received from Tehran to disregard the bomb scare, following which, the aircraft continued on its journey towards its final destination,&#8221; the statement said.<\/p>\n<p>The Airbus A340 operated by Iranian carrier Mahan Air, with a capacity of between 320 and 475 passengers, was headed from the Iranian capital Tehran to Guangzhou in China.<\/p>\n<p>Flight tracker websites showed that the aircraft performed several mid-air circles west of the Indian capital New Delhi before heading east towards its final destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian jets scramble after false bomb scare on Iran airliner. Indian military jets were scrambled on Monday after a bomb alert on an Iranian airliner that turned out to be false, the Indian Air Force (IAF) said. &#8220;IAF fighter aircraft were scrambled, which followed the aircraft at a safe distance. The aircraft was offered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":11126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[470,3198,2819,139],"class_list":["post-11125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-world","tag-china","tag-indian-air-force","tag-new-delhi","tag-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}