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Air India flight makes emergency landing after bomb threat

The back of an Air India plane after it crashed in a residential area near the airport in Ahmedabad. [AFP]

An Air India flight from Thailand's Phuket island to New Delhi was forced to make an emergency landing Friday shortly after takeoff because of an onboard bomb threat, the Thai airports authority said.

The incident comes a day after a London-bound Air India passenger jet crashed in the Indian city of Ahmedabad, killing at least 265 people on board and on the ground.

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