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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 to IGI Airport. The Union home and aviation ministries are working together to tackle this issue and prosecute those responsible for these threats, which are disrupting flights, affecting thousands of passengers during the peak festive travel season, and causing significant financial losses to airlines.A "deeply concerned" Union aviation minister Ram Mohan Naidu chaired a high-level meeting on the issue this Monday, attended by senior officials ...

NEW DELHI: Hoax bomb threat messages have made it a maniac Monday for three international flights of two Indian carriers and close to 600 passengers onboard. Since any threat is taken very seriously, one flight — Air India Mumbai-New York which was diverted to Delhi — and two others delayed for being checked thoroughly before these two were allowed to proceed for their destinations.Luckily while those proved to be hoax, this menace continues to play havoc with flight schedules.The three impacted flights were — AI 119 that was diverted to Delhi; IndiGo Mumbai-Muscat 6E1275 and IndiGo Mumbai-Jeddah 6E56. Aviation security officials confirmed that the threat messages proved to be hoax.An Air India spokesperson said: “AI119 operating Mumbai to New York JFK on Oct 14 received a specific securit...

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7 more flights get hoax threats today; aviation minister Ram Mohan says those responsible to be duly prosecuted | India News – Times of India

False scare: Three international flights get bomb threats | India News – Times of India