Bomb Threats Force Emergency Landings for 14 Planes, Including Vistara and Akasa !!

The series of bomb threats to the country’s airlines continues. After Saturday, many planes received bomb threats on Sunday as well. After this, there was a stir. Emergency landing of planes had to be done in a hurry. According to aviation sources, on Sunday (October 20), at least 14 flights of various airlines received bomb threats. These include Vistara, Akasa and many other airlines.

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The flight coming from Singapore to Pune received a threat.

According to the information, on Sunday, there was a stir after Vistara Airlines’ flight coming from Singapore to Pune received a bomb threat. After receiving a bomb threat, the plane was made to make an emergency landing at Pune Airport. Apart from this, on Sunday itself, there was news of a bomb in Akasa Air’s Lucknow to Mumbai flight. After this, this plane also had to make an emergency landing.

More than 30 planes received threats on Saturday.

Let us tell you that this is not the first case when a plane has received a bomb threat. Earlier on Saturday, from morning to evening, more than 30 planes received bomb threats. After this, the planes were isolated at the airports. After evacuating all the passengers safely, the planes were checked. However, no suspicious or explosive material was recovered from any flight.

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The news of bombs proved to be a rumour.

That is, the threat to blow up all the planes proved to be just a rumour. Out of the planes that received bomb threats on Saturday, 6 flights were safely landed at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai. According to a police officer, the threatening posts were made from the same account on the social media platform X. After that, in a thorough investigation, these threats turned out to be just a rumour.

According to the officer, a user named Adha threatened to blow up the airlines on X, but six of these planes landed at Mumbai airport. According to officials, emergency landing of flights coming from cities like Delhi, Goa, Darbhanga etc. was done at Mumbai airport.