In the past week, Indian airlines have received more than 100 hoax bomb threats resulting in inconvenience to passengers and monetary loss to the airlines . Most of the threats were posted on accounts on X and the accounts were created by using a virtual private network (VPN) or dark web br
Two IndiGo flights operating from Hyderabad to Jodhpur and from Kolkata to Jaipur received bomb threats on Tuesday, prompting the airline to activate emergency protocols.
Major Indian airlines, including IndiGo, Vistara, and Akasa Air, reported bomb threats for both their international and domestic flights during this period.
As many as 30 domestic and international flights operated by Indian airlines have received bomb threats from Monday night till Tuesday afternoon, as per aviation sources.
The major Indian airline companies including Indigo, Vistara and Air India received bomb threats for their international and domestic flights, on Monday night.
Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Naidu Kinjarapu on Monday said that the Civil Aviation Ministry is considering amending existing laws to deal with false bomb threats on aircraft and plans to put those who make such threats on a no-fly list.
Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) Director General RS Bhatti and Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) Director General Zulfiquar Hasan met with Union Home Secretary Govind Mohan on Monday to discuss recent hoax bomb threats targeting domestic and international flights.
Asangba Chuba Ao, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Civil Aviation, has stated that the aviation security regulator is working to find solid solutions for the continuous hoax bomb threats faced by Indian airlines.
Vistara and Akasa Air received security threats on twelve flights -- six for each airline -- operating on Sunday, prompting the airlines to activate their emergency protocols.