An Air India Express flight IX-196 flying from Dubai to Jaipur, with 189 passengers onboard, received a bomb threat via email in the wee ho.

An Air India Express flight IX-196 flying from Dubai to Jaipur, with 189 passengers onboard received a bomb threat via an email at 12.45am on Saturday.

Singapore ’s military scrambled two fighter jets after an Air India Express plane bound for the Changi airport received a bomb threat, the latest in a string of apparent hoaxes that have disrupted journeys for hundreds of passengers from India this week.

The RAF has sent Typhoon fighter jets to intercept an Indian flight heading into London’s Heathrow Airport after it declared a ‘bomb threat’. An Air India flight from Mumbai declared an emergency earlier this afternoon.