The flight, carrying 174 passengers including seven crew members was monitored by the budget carrier's Emergency Response Team and was diverted to the IGI Airport in Delhi.
A suspected bomb threat on the Air India flight AI-471 travelling from Delhi to Vishakhapatnam turned out to be a hoax after the authorities received a call for the threat on Wednesday.
The bomb threat email received by a school in Delhi's Greater Kailash area turned out to be a hoax by a 14-year-old to skip school, police said on Saturday.
The Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport in Indore city of Madhya Pradesh on Friday received a hoax bomb threat after which the case has been registered against unidentified persons in this connection, officials said.
A Vistara flight bound for Srinagar, carrying 177 passengers and one infant, received a bomb threat on Friday, prompting swift action by the airline and security forces. Flight no-UK-611, which departed from Delhi, landed safely at Srinagar Airport at approximately 12:10 AM.
A tissue paper, with the word ''bomb@5.30'' written on it, was found in the lavatory of an Indigo flight from Delhi to Varanasi, at Delhi airport on Tuesday morning prompting security agencies to conduct an inspection but it turned out to be a hoax, said a senior CISF official.
This status report has been filed pursuant to an order passed by the bench of Justice Subramonium Prasad on May 6, 2024. This matter is coming up for a hearing on May 20.