Indian airlines get nearly 1,000 fake bomb threats this year

By Anadolu staff

Indian airlines has received nearly 1,000 fake bomb threats this year, local media reported on Thursday.

Speaking in the parliament, the Minister of State for Civil Aviation Murlidhar Mohol said that airlines received a total of 1,143 hoax calls from August 2022 to Nov. 13 this year.

“As many as 27 hoax bomb threat calls were received between August and December 2022. The number increased to 122 in 2023, while the current year alone witnessed a sharp rise, with 994 calls reported as of mid-November 2024,” Hindustan Times quoted Mohol as saying.

The minister added only in October, the airlines received 680 calls.

Last month, the Indian Vistara Airlines flight from Germany’s Frankfurt to the Indian state of Maharashtra’s capital Mumbai received a security threat via social media and the flight landed safely at Mumbai Airport in

Earlier, an Air India flight carrying 211 passengers was forced to make an emergency landing in Canada’s High Arctic region after receiving an online threat.

*Writing by Islamuddin Sajid