As many as 19 flights have obtained bomb threats in three days and a Riyadh-bound IndiGo flight was diverted to Muscat as a result of risk, in line with officers.
In lower than 24 hours, 9 flights obtained bomb threats and the full depend has climbed to at the very least 19 in three days. The threats, obtained by way of social media, have turned out to be hoax.
On Wednesday, bomb threats had been obtained by 4 IndiGo flights, two SpiceJet flights and one flight of Akasa Air. On Tuesday late evening, one flight every of Vistara and Air India Specific had obtained the threats.
IndiGo obtained bomb threats for 3 flights, together with the Riyadh-Mumbai flight 6E 74 that was diverted to Muscat (Oman). Riyadh is a metropolis in Saudi Arabia.
“The plane has been remoted, and all passengers have been safely disembarked,” an airline spokesperson mentioned in a press release.
One other flight 6E 1011 from Mumbai to Singapore obtained a security-related alert and the flight landed at Singapore.
Additionally, IndiGo’s flight 6E 515, working from Chennai to Lucknow, obtained a security-related alert. After touchdown at Lucknow, the plane was positioned at an remoted bay and all passengers have been safely disembarked, the airline spokesperson mentioned in a press release.
In the meantime, late on Tuesday, a Mumbai-bound IndiGo flight from the nationwide capital was diverted to Ahmedabad after a bomb risk.
An Akasa Air flight enroute to Bengaluru returned to Delhi on Wednesday afternoon following a bomb risk.
“Akasa Air flight QP 1335, flying from Delhi to Bengaluru on October 16, 2024, and carrying 174 passengers, 3 infants and seven crew members on board, obtained a safety alert,” an airline spokesperson mentioned in a press release.
A SpiceJet spokesperson mentioned the airline’s X deal with obtained a direct message indicating a bomb risk regarding two flights — one was Leh-Delhi and the opposite was Darbangha-Mumbai.
“Passengers on each plane disembarked safely. After receiving the mandatory approvals from the involved authorities the plane had been launched for additional operations,” the spokesperson mentioned in a press release.
Vistara flight UK 161 from Delhi to Hong Kong obtained a safety risk by way of social media on October 15.
The flight landed safely at Hong Kong on Wednesday early morning the place all necessary safety checks had been performed earlier than the plane was cleared to renew operations, an airline spokesperson mentioned in a press release.
On Tuesday evening, an Air India Specific flight IX 437 from Kochi to Dubai obtained a bomb risk and the flight later landed safely at Dubai, sources within the know mentioned.
There was no remark from Air India Specific on the incident.
The problem of a number of hoax risk messages to numerous airways got here up earlier than a parliamentary committee on Wednesday.
Civil Aviation Secretary Vumlunmang Vualnam instructed within the assembly of the Standing Committee on Transport, Tourism and Tradition, which is headed by JD(U) MP Sanjay Jha, that investigators have gathered some data and are taking motion.
They’re engaged on a number of different circumstances of such hoax messages, he added.
He, nonetheless, cited the sensitivity of knowledge as a result of ongoing probe into the matter to say no to share extra particulars, in line with sources.
As many as 9 flights obtained bomb risk on Tuesday and one in all them, Air India’s AI 127 flight from Delhi to Chicago, was diverted to an airport in Canada. The stranded passengers on the Iqaluit airport had been ferried to Chicago by a Canadian Air Power aircraft.
On Tuesday, an Air India Specific flight IX 684 from Madurai to Singapore had obtained a bomb risk.
Singapore Armed Forces had scrambled two fighter jets to escort the Air India Specific aircraft away from populated areas earlier than it landed safely at Singapore’s Changi airport.
