American Airlines flight rerouted to Rome over security scare

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American Airlines flight from New York to New Delhi diverted to Rome due to a security concern. Found non-credible after inspection, the flight continued to Delhi.

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00:00More news coming in this morning, an American Airlines flight from New York to New Delhi

00:04was diverted to Rome on Sunday due to a security concern later determined to be non-credible.

00:11The flight that departed from the John F. Kennedy International Airport had been headed

00:16to the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi.

00:20American Airlines flight 292 is diverted to Rome, we understand, due to a possible security

00:26concern.

00:27Air Force enforcement in Rome inspected and cleared the aircraft to depart, to re-depart

00:31rather.

00:32The flight will stay overnight in Rome to allow for a quiet crew rest before continuing

00:36to Delhi on Monday, Reuters reported, quoting the airlines.

00:42This is a development they were reporting from, regarding the American Airlines flight

00:47from New York to New Delhi, which was diverted to Rome due to a security concern and thankfully

00:54the security concern was later deemed as non-credible.

01:00The flight which departed from the JFK International Airport had been headed to the Indira Gandhi

01:06International Airport in New Delhi.

01:08The American Airlines flight was diverted to Rome due to a possible security concern,

01:13is what we are learning.

01:17Law enforcement in Rome inspected and found and cleared the aircraft to re-depart.

01:23The flight will stay overnight in Rome to allow for a quiet crew rest before continuing

01:28to Delhi on Monday, is what we are learning, this has been reported by Reuters, quoting

01:33the airlines from a statement from them.

01:36An American Airlines flight from New York to New Delhi was diverted to Rome, is what

01:41we are learning.

01:42I am going to go straight across to Anmol Bali for more on that.

01:46Anmol finally, in fact when the flight was inspected the information that was found or

01:50the threat that was found was seemed to be or rather determined to be non-credible.

01:55What more can you tell us about what had happened there?

01:57Basically, this was American Airlines flight 88292, which was from New York to New Delhi,

02:05which was later diverted to Rome after some bomb threats.

02:08Airlines says the threat deemed to be non-credible after the inspection and flight may resume

02:13its journey to Delhi on Monday, means today.

02:17So they have thoroughly checked the flight and they have also asked the crew for the

02:21rest and according to airlines, the flight will stay in Rome overnight, allow for a quiet

02:27crew to rest before continuing to Delhi as soon as possible for tomorrow, means Delhi.

02:32So they have found the threat non-credible, uncredible and now they have checked and now

02:38soon they will resume their journey back to Delhi.

02:41All right, I am going to thank you Anmol for getting us those details, Anmol Bali.

02:44With that report on the flight from New York to New Delhi being diverted due to a threat

02:49perception which is now deemed to be determined to be non-credible.

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