Saudi Arabian Airlines News
Emergency landing of airplane: A cargo plane of Saudi Airlines had to make an emergency landing at Kolkata airport. It had to make an emergency landing because of a tight windshield.
The panicked woman alerted the cabin crew that she forgot to bring her child on board.
The Saudia aircraft was travelling from the Muslim holy city of Medina to Dhaka with 151 people on board.
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates severed diplomatic and trade ties with Qatar on June 5 in what has become the worst political crisis to grip the Gulf region in decades.
In March, US officials imposed restrictions on passengers carrying laptops and other large electronic gear in cabins on nine airlines, most of which were Middle Eastern carriers, to address the potential threat of hidden explosives.
There was a "false alarm for hijack for Flight 872," the spokesman said in the Saudi capital Riyadh.
Aena said they had later downgraded the alarm from general to local, meaning the alert would not affect other flights.
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