An Air India flight from Mumbai to London Heathrow has become the latest target for a string of hoax threats against Indian carriers.Flight AI129 was approaching the Essex coast after a nine-and-a-half flight from the Indian city.

The Royal Air Force on Thursday scrambled a Typhoon fighter jet to intercept an Air India aircraft that received a bomb threat and the plane later landed safely in London. The bomb threat was received for the Air India plane from Mumbai to London,

Earlier on Wednesday, seven flights of IndiGo, SpiceJet and Akasa received similar bomb threats. Prior to that, nearly a dozen flights operated by Indian carriers received similar threats on Monday and Tuesday.