10 Indian Flights Grounded by Hoax Bomb Threats in 2 Days, Civil Aviation Ministry Takes Action

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10 Indian Flights Grounded by Hoax Bomb Threats: An Air India flight with 211 passengers from Delhi to Chicago was diverted to Iqaluit Airport in Canada today after a bomb threat on social media. 10 flights were grounded in 2 days due to bomb threats, mostly online.

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Bomb threats have led to specific counter-terrorist drills at airports. MoCA has called a high level meeting tomorrow after several Indian airlines received bomb threats.

Most of the bomb threats were from a single X account, schizobomber777 which has been suspended now.

Threats were made against several flights including Air India Express IX765 from Jaipur to Bengaluru via Ayodhya, SpiceJet SG116 from Darbhanga to Mumbai, Akasa Air QP1373 from Bagdogra to Bengaluru, Air India AI127 from Delhi to Chicago, IndiGo 6E98 from Dammam (Saudi Arabia) to Lucknow, Alliance Air 9I650 from Amritsar to Dehradun and Air India Express IX684 from Madurai to Singapore.

A senior police officer told news agency ANI, “We have identified and suspended several accounts that were posting threats on social media regarding bombs in airplanes. It has been informed some threats were originated from London and from other countries.”

An airport security officer said, “In the last 24 hours, we have received several bomb threats in many sectors. We are taking up all the calls and also informed concerned police officers regarding the threat to identify the person behind it.”

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The 7 flights including one to US received bomb threats on X today. Security agencies conducted specific counter-terrorist drills at airports.

These threats on X came a day after 3 international flights from Mumbai received bomb threats on Monday, affecting hundreds of passengers and crew. An Air India flight to New York was diverted to Delhi and rescheduled and 2 IndiGo flights were delayed by several hours.

All messages on Monday were declared hoax after security and intelligence agencies, along with airlines and airport operators did the required anti-terrorist drills after bomb or hijack threats, sources said.

BCAS has roped in Indian cyber agencies and police to track the person or persons behind these threats.

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