Lufthansa flight to Hyderabad returns to Frankfurt following bomb threat

A Lufthansa flight enroute to Hyderabad from Frankfurt was forced to return to its origin on Sunday (June 15) evening following a bomb threat, prompting a full-scale security response.

The flight, LH 752, operated by a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, departed Frankfurt Airport around 6 p.m. According to flight tracking data, the aircraft had been airborne for nearly two hours and was flying over Bulgarian airspace when it made a U-turn and was diverted back to Frankfurt.

The aircraft had been scheduled to arrive at Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) at approximately 1.20 a.m. on Monday, June 16.