According to flight tracker Flightradar24, the Air Indian Express plane took off from the Madurai airport at about 1.54pm local time and was due to land in Singapore at about 8.50pm. It only landed at 10.04pm after a delay of over an hour.

SINGAPORE: Police in India's financial capital Mumbai have arrested a minor for allegedly posting online bomb threats earlier this week, India's aviation minister said on Wednesday (Oct 16). Indian airlines received a spate of threats to domestic and international flights on their social media pages, all of which have been false alarms.

Singapore scrambled fighter aircraft to escort an Air India Express plane after an email warning about a possible bomb on board, the city state’s defence minister said. Indian airlines have received a number of hoax bomb threats in recent days.