Amid a series of hoax calls received by several flights, an Akasa Air Flight bound for Bengaluru was diverted to Delhi after getting a bomb threat. This marks the 11th such threat to an airplane in the last 48 hours.
On Tuesday, the airplanes that received bomb threat were – Delhi-Chicago Air India, Ayodhya-Bengaluru Air India Express, Darbhanga-Mumbai SpiceJet, Dammam-Lucknow IndiGo, Bagdogra-Bengaluru Akasa Air, Amritsar-Dehradun-Delhi Alliance Air, and Madurai-Singapore Air India Express flights.
Two IndiGo and one Air India flight on Monday received hoax threats. These included Mumbai-New York Air India flight AI119 and Muscut-bound IndiGo flight 6E1275m, and Jeddah-bound flight 6E56.
Multiple airports have been the target of bomb threats, many of which have later turned out to be hoax. Earlier on October 5, Devi Ahilya Bai Holkar International Airport located in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore received a bomb threat email following which the police registered an FIR.
The mail sender also threatened to blow up other airports in the country. Similarly, Vadodara Airport received a bomb threat via e-mail, which promoted a thorough search on October 5. Meanwhile, security has been beefed up following the received threat and authorities are currently investigating the matter.
Last month, an Air India flight from Mumbai received a bomb threat, after which it landed at Thiruvananthapuram International Airport. According to news agency PTI, a message written on a tissue paper reading “Bomb in flight” was found in the plane’s washroom.
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