This was the second such incident on the IndiGo flight in a week. Earlier on May 28, an IndiGo flight from Delhi to Varanasi had received a bomb threat early morning. However, it had turned out to be a hoax.
An IndiGo flight from Chennai made an emergency landing in Mumbai after a bomb threat. All passengers were safely disembarked, and the aircraft is currently undergoing inspection.
A bomb threat hoax targeting a Srinagar-bound Vistara flight led to swift action from airport authorities and security forces, ensuring passenger safety and resuming normal operations after thorough checks.
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The bomb threat was received at 5:35 am after which the officials swung into action. The flight was moved to isolation bay to conduct a search operation. According to an official, the threat turned out to be hoax.
Taj Hotel and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport are the latest buildings in the long list that received bomb threat. In a month over a hundred schools in Delhi-NCR, three five-star hotels in Bengaluru and North Block (Offices of several ministries) got a similar threat.
In the past few weeks, bomb threat emails have been received by many establishments including schools and hospitals across the country.
The DFS official said a dog squad and bomb disposal and detection teams along with police and fire department personnel conducted the searches but nothing was found.
The police said the flight was searched after the note was discovered but nothing suspicious was found. However, passengers later departed for their destination on another aircraft. Notably, several hospitals and schools have received 'hoax' bomb threat emails recently.
This is the fourth time in the last one month that various places, including schools, have received such threats.
Bomb threat: Hospitals in Delhi received a new bomb threat email just two days after similar threats targeted Delhi airport and at least twenty medical centres across the city.
This comes a day after several hospitals and IGI airport received bomb threats in the national capital.
Eight hospitals and IGI airport in Delhi received bomb threats through email, days after over 150 schools in the national capital faced a similar scare. The security has been beefed up in all the hospitals in the city and additional police force deployment was made at the airport.
The incident comes days after nearly 100 schools in Delhi-NCR received bomb threat in a similar fashion -- via email.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the designated National Central Bureau of India and also known as Interpol India, is responsible for all the communication and coordination with the Interpol, they added.
Around 100 schools in Delhi received bomb threat emails on Wednesday. The Crime Branch and IFSO unit of Delhi Police’s Special Cell have been roped in to trace the origin of the emails and their IP addresses and nothing suspicious has been found after the searches in the school.
There has been a panic situation in the National Capital since Wednesday Morning after the bomb threat in the schools. The police administration is carrying out intensive search operations at all places.
Delhi-NCR schools bomb threat: Multiple schools in Delhi and Noida, including DPS Dwarka and Noida, Sanskriti School, Indian School, St Thomas School and Amity School in Pushp Vihar, faced a chilling bomb threat via email on Wednesday morning.
Here is the list of schools in Delhi-NCR that received a bomb threat email today, May 1.
Delhi schools bomb threat: Several schools in Delhi-NCR have reported receiving bomb threats via email on Wednesday morning. In response, the Delhi Police have initiated comprehensive searches, and as a precautionary measure, some schools have decided to close temporarily.
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