At least 79 more flights get bomb threats in 24 hours

At least 79 flights operated by Indian carriers received bomb threats between Monday night and Tuesday, India Today reported. During this period, 23 flights from IndiGo, 23 from Air India, 21 from Vistara and 12 from Akasa received such threats.

This took the total number of bomb threats received by airlines to 169 since October 14.

The 23 IndiGo flights were issued threats in two different posts on the social media platform X at 11.40 pm on Monday and 4 pm on Tuesday, The Hindu reported.

“All the threats were declared non-specific and the flights allowed to continue to destination,” the newspaper quoted an unidentified Central Industrial Security Force official as saying.

Three of these IndiGo aircraft that were headed to Jeddah were diverted. While flight 6E 77, flying from Bengaluru to Jeddah, was redirected to Doha, flight 6E 65 from Kozhikode to Jeddah had to land in Riyadh. Flight 6E 63 from Delhi to Jeddah was diverted to Medina, according to The Hindu.

An unidentified Vistara spokesperson said that the “security threats” were received by the airline on social media. “We immediately alerted the relevant authorities and are following all security procedures as directed by them,” the spokesperson added.

On Monday, Union Civil Aviation Minister Ram Mohan Kinjarapu Naidu said that the Centre was considering legislative action to include persons found guilty of making...

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