Bomb threat on Air India flight, Kerala airport declares full emergency: What happened

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Thiruvananthapuram Airport in Kerala declared a full emergency on Thursday morning after reports of bomb threat on an Air India flight arriving from Mumbai.

Air India's Mumbai-Thiruvananthapuram flight was kept in the isolation bay and all passengers were evacuated after it landed with 135 passengers at the airport around 8 am on Tursday.

Officials said the emergency status was withdrawn at the airport at around 12.10 pm.

"A specific security alert was detected on Air India flight AI657 during cruise from Mumbai to Thiruvananthapuram on August 22. The flight has landed safely in Thiruvananthapuram and has been parked in a remote bay for the mandatory checks by security agencies. All passengers and crew disembarked safely," said an Air India spokesperson.

Airport sources have so far declined to confirm whether the threat was a hoax.