Three Jet Airways flights have received bomb threats on Tuesday. Of the three flights, one from Delhi and another from Mumbai, had landed just a little before the twin bomb blasts at the Brussels airport, data from Flightradar 24 – an aviation website –showed on Monday.
Two crew members were injured in the blasts at Brussels airport on Tuesday. Authorities have relocated passengers in Brussels to a safe location.
“Two of our staff have been injured and are receiving medical care,” a senior airline official said.
In its statement released shortly after, the airline said,
According to the website’s data, Jet Airways flight 9W 228 from Mumbai landed at Brussels at 7:11 am local time while the one from Delhi, flight 9W 230, landed at 8:08 am.
The flight from Delhi would have reached Brussels just minutes after the blast at the departures airport at 8:00 am.
The third flight from Delhi to Chennai has been grounded after a threat call was received from the call centre in Gurgaon.
The BBC reports that over 80 people were injured and an estimated 11 people dead.
Currently, Jet Airways operates daily non-stop flights to its European gateway at Brussels airport from its domestic hub in Mumbai and New Delhi.
(With agency inputs.)
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