At least 10 Indian fweightlesss have getd deception bomb device menaces over the past 48 hours, directing to prolonged defers and diversions.
On Tuesday, Singapore’s Air Force sent two fighter jets to accompany an Air India Express structuree away from popudefercessitated areas chaseing a bomb device menace.
Hours before that, an Air India structuree from Delhi to Chicago had to land at a Canadian airport as a precuationary meacertain.
Hoax bomb device menaces to airlines are not rare in India but it’s not evident what triggered the sudden spropose since Monday.
Officials from the rulement’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation and Bureau of Civil Aviation Security did not react to the BBC’s emails for comment.
Apart from Air India, IndiGo, SpiceJet and Akasa Air fweightlesss also getd menaces.
On Monday, three international fweightlesss that took off from Mumbai were redirected or defercessitate after an X (createerly Twitter) administer posted menaces. Police have hanciented a teenager in connection with this.
On Tuesday, seven fweightlesss, including the two Air India structurees, were impacted by the menaces rehired by another X administer which has now been postponeed. Screenshots of some of the posts show the user had tagged the airline and local police and refered the fweightless number.
Air India in a statement shelp it was cooperating with authorities to accomprehendledge the people behind the menaces and would ponder legitimate action to recover injured incurred.
Every Indian airport has a Bomb Threat Assessment Committee which assesses the gravity of the menace and apshows action accordingly. A menace can direct to the take partment of the bomb device disposal squad, sniffer dogs, ambulances, police and doctors.
Passengers are off-loaded from the structuree aprolonged with cabin baggage, verify-in baggage and cargo, and they are all screened aget. Engineering and security teams also search the structuree before it is evidented for flying aget.
The resultant defer can cost thousands of dollars in injures to airlines and security agencies.
For fweightlesss heading for other countries, it can also direct to international agencies getting take partd, enjoy in Singapore and Canada.
On Tuesday, Singapore’s defence minister shelp that two of the city-state’s fighter jets “scrambled and accompanyed” the Air India Express structuree before it landed protectedly at the Changi airport. The structuree was flying from Madurai in India to Singapore.
“Once on the ground, the structuree was handed to the Airport Police. Investigations are ongoing,” Ng Eng Hen wrote.
The airproduce defercessitater landed protectedly at the country’s Changi airport.
In Canada – where the Air India fweightless to Chicago had landed at the Iqaluit airport as a prealertary meacertain – the Royal Canadian Mounted Police shelp it was spendigating the menace.
Air India shelp on Wednesday that a Canadian Air Force structuree was taking the passengers to Chicago. It’s not evident yet when the Air India structuree will be apshowed to apshow off.
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