Bomb threat on Chicago-bound Air India and other 21 flights; Airline says, ‘Activated agencies at the airport…’

Multiple flights including Chicago-bound Air India has received bomb threats from a mysterious social media account, within a span of just five hours.

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On Tuesday, 15th October, several flights received bomb threats from a mysterious social media account, within a span of just five hours. A total of 22 flights received the bomb threat. These threats were posted on X, a day after three international flights originating from Mumbai received bomb threats that caused trouble to the passengers and the airline crew.

The flights that received the bomb threats from the mysterious social media account included, Air India Express flight from Jaipur to Bengaluru via Ayodhya (IX765), a SpiceJet flight from Darbhanga to Mumbai (SG116), an Akasa Air flight from Bagdogra to Bengaluru (QP 1373), an Air India flight from Delhi to Chicago (AI 127) and an Indigo flight from Dammam (Saudi Arabia) to Lucknow (6E 98). One of the flights also got diverted because of the threat.

After receiving the threat on Tuesday afternoon, the Delhi-Chicago AI 127 flight was diverted to Canada's Iqaluit International Airport (CYFB).

Air India informed that precautionary measures are taken in response to the bomb threat. It stated, “Flight Al127 operating from Delhi to Chicago on October 15, 2024, was the subject of a security threat posted online and, as a precautionary measure, has landed at Iqaluit Airport in Canada. The aircraft and passengers are being re-screened as per the laid down security protocol. Air India has activated agencies at the airport to assist the passengers until such time that their journey can resume. Air India notes that it, and other local airlines, have been subject to a number of threats in recent days. Though all have subsequently been found to be hoaxes, as a responsible airline operator all threats are taken seriously. The inconvenience to customers is sincerely regretted.”

All these threats were issued by the same X account. The bio of the account read, ‘Real terrorist’. In the posts, the account tagged these flights and police handles. It claimed that bombs are placed on these flights. 

These bomb threats started being issued at 12:38 pm on Tuesday and persisted until 4:00 pm. However, all these threats were fake and the X account, issuing these threats, got suspended by the platform. The UP Police Cyber Cell has started an investigation of the case.

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