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Jet flight landed within minutes of Brussels airport blasts

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New Delhi, March 22: Two Jet Airways flights, one from Delhi and the other from Mumbai, had landed just a little before the twin bomb blasts at the Brussels airport, data with aviation website Flightradar24 showed on Monday.

Jet Airways said it will soon be issuing a separate statement on the incident.

[Trying to confirm status of passengers, staffers: Jet Airways]

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According to the data with the website, Jet Airways flight 9W 228 from Mumbai landed at Brussels at 7.11 a.m. local time while the one from Delhi 9W 230 landed at 8.08 am.

[Singer Abhijeet's family safe at Brussels airport after twin blasts]

The Delhi flight would have reached Brussels just minutes after the bomb blast at the Departure airport at 8.00 am.

Several people were said to have been injured with one confirmed deaths.

[Brussels explosions: No Indian among casualties]

Currently, Jet Airways operates daily non-stop flights to its European gateway at Brussels airport from its domestic hub in Mumbai and New Delhi.

IANS

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