A report published by the state-funded Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) claiming that Canada’s security agency “had a mole” in the group that hatched the plan to bomb an Air India flight in 1985 is going viral on social media.The report published in 2003 claims that the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service (CSIS) “pulled out the…
NEW DELHI: Hoax threat are pouring in since late Friday night and 29 flights across Indian carriers had got such messages till Saturday afternoon. The situation is getting to a point where a big metro airport is running out of remote bays for parking aircraft that get threats for checks. “Since Friday night we have…
NEW DELHI: Hoax threat calls continue to wreak havoc on Indian carriers. Since late Friday night at least eight flights of Air India Group (3) and IndiGo (5) have got such messages.Vistara‘s Delhi -London flight diverted to Frankfurt and after a thorough check the aircraft proceeded to its destination. Air India’s Newark-Mumbai was delayed at…
NEW DELHI: Hoax threat calls continue to wreak havoc on Indian carriers. Since late Friday night till early Saturday, three flights of Air India group received threat messages. Vistara‘s Delhi -London flight diverted to Frankfurt and after a thorough check the aircraft proceeded to its destination. Air India’s Newark-Mumbai was delayed at the origin for…
NEW DELHI/ MUMBAI: Hoax threat messages continue to wreak havoc on flights of Indian carriers, with at least 13 aircraft affected on Thursday.While Air India got a threat for five flights – Mumbai-London (AI 129), Delhi-New York JFK (AI 119), Chennai-Singapore, and two domestic flights – on Thursday, IndiGo and Vistara received threats for two…
NEW DELHI: Hoax threat messages continue to wreak havoc on flights of Indian carriers. While Air India got a threat for five flights — Mumbai-London (AI 129), Delhi – New York JFK (AI 119), a Chennai-Singapore and two domestic on Thursday, — IndiGo and Vistara threats for two flights each. AI Express is also learnt…
Amid the chaos caused by hoaxes, the 220-odd passengers stranded in the remote town of Iqaluit in Canada after Air India‘s Delhi-Chicago flight was diverted there Tuesday following a bomb threat reached their destination Wednesday onboard a Royal Canadian Air Force Airbus A330, albeit without their checked-in baggage. Due to flight-duty time limitations, the crew…
NEW DELHI: At least seven more flights received hoax threat messages on Wednesday, bringing the total number of affected airliners to nearly 20 in the past three days. An IndiGo Riyadh-Mumbai flight (6E 74) was diverted to Muscat on Wednesday, and its Mumbai-Delhi flight (6E 651) to Ahmedabad, while Akasa’s Delhi-Bengaluru flight (QP 1335) returned…
NEW DELHI: The Mumbai police have issued notices to a teenage boy, his father, and another person from Rajnandgaon in Chhattisgarh as part of an investigation into bomb threats that disrupted three international flights on Monday.The threats were posted on social media, specifically on the platform X, leading to significant security measures at Chhatrapati Shivaji…
NEW DELHI: Akasa Air flight en route to Bengaluru returned to Delhi following a bomb threat on Wednesday. The sources in the know said the flight QP1335 had more than 180 people onboard and landed safely at the Delhi airport. An emergency was declared at the airport for the aircraft after the bomb threat, they…
