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All passengers were escorted from the New Delhi-bound flight AI 379 after it landed back at Phuket airport An Air India flight from Phuket in Thailand to India's capital New Delhi received an on-board bomb threat on Friday and made an emergency landing on the island, airport authorities said. All 156 passengers on flight AI 379 had been escorted from the plane, in line with emergency plans, an Airports of Thailand official said. The aircraft took off from Phuket airport bound for the Indian capital at 9.30am (local time) on Friday, but made a wide loop around the Andaman Sea and landed back on the southern Thai island, according to flight tracker Flightradar24. Do you have questions about the biggest topics and trends from around the world? Get the answers with SCMP Knowledge , our new platform of curated content with explainers, FAQs, analyses and infographics brought to you by our award-winning team. The incident follows the crash of an Air India flig...

American Airlines passengers bound for Naples, Italy, were forced to disembark in Rome and take a 140-mile bus ride after the airline dispatched an aircraft too large to land at their intended destination. The flight, originally scheduled to land at Naples International Airport in the Italian city of Naples on June 3, instead touched down at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci International Airport, according to flight data from FlightAware cited by USA TODAY . The aircraft, a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, departed from Philadelphia in the U.S. on the evening of June 2. While American Airlines typically operates this route using the smaller Boeing 787-8, suitable for Naples Airport, it opted to use the larger 787-9 for this flight. As the aircraft approached Italy, it made a sudden turn over the Tyrrhenian Sea and diverted to Rome, about halfway between the two cities. An American Airlines spokesperson later told CBS News the diversion was due to "operational limitations....