India, Oct. 14 -- An Air India flight from Frankfurt to Delhi was diverted to Jaipur and made an emergency landing at Jaipur International Airport on Wednesday morning after the pilot issued a hijacking alert, according to Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) sources. The aviation regulator is probing the incident.

Flight AI 2030, operated by a Boeing 787-9 aircraft, landed safely and was moved to a designated isolation bay for security checks, the sources said.

According to DGCA sources, the aircraft was squawking transponder code 7500, the internationally recognised aviation code for hijacking or unlawful interference. The alert issued by the pilot-in-command (PIC) was received by Air Traffic Control (ATC), following which the...