Air India Threat Call

A 42-year-old man has been arrested from Bengaluru for allegedly giving a bomb threat to Akasa Air as he wanted to delay a flight for his wife who had reached the airport late, Mumbai police said on Wednesday.

Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra Friday expressed deep concern over the threat video released by designated terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun and emphasised "serious security concerns" it poses.

The Azur Air international flight from Moscow which made an emergency landing at Jamnagar airport in Gujarat following a bomb threat finally arrived at its destination Goa today afternoon, an official said.

A US-bound Air India flight made an unscheduled landing in London for what the airline initially called a "bomb threat". Minutes later, the tweet was deleted without any update being offered. Much later, news agency Reuters reported that an airline official said it was a hoax.

Air India's Mumbai control centre on Saturday received a phone call threatening to hijack its plane, following which Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) ordered all airlines and CISF to follow specific enhanced measures to ensure security, according to an official note.

The Indian Air Force or IAF is set to hold one of its biggest wargames specifically designed to deal with any simultaneous threat posed by Pakistan and China. The exercises, called Gagan Shakti 2018, are scheduled to take place anytime between the April 11 and 21 and will see the Indian Air Force mobilise 1100 aircraft including fighters, transport...

An Air India check-in counter at Kolkata airport received a call from a woman claiming that there is a bomb on its Guwahati-bound flight. The call was received before the flight was scheduled to take-off.

Four bomb threat calls received in quick succession at Delhi and Bengaluru airports forced aviation authorities ground three flights, including two international, sending a panic wave among fliers.

As passenger frisking and checking has increased at Mumbai Airport, following a series of threat calls and messages, a female passenger was detained during late hours of Tuesday, after security found four live bullets in her baggage.

A city court on Monday remanded Prasanta Biswas, arrested for allegedly making a threat call to the city office of Air India here that one of its planes will be hijacked, to judicial custody till January 9.

One person was today arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police from Bongaon area in North 24 Parganas district for allegedly making a threat call to the city office of Air India.

An anonymous telephone call threatening that an Air India plane would be hijacked was made to the Kolkata office of the state-owned carrier on Saturday evening, police said.

Police and CISF personnel were on high alert at the Kochi Airport following an anonymous call on Tuesday morning that a bomb was planted there.

The threat of another pilots' stir in Air India loomed large today, as one of its international flight was cancelled and two more delayed by over 16 hours after a section of pilots reported sick, apparently to protest against the rescheduling of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner training programme.

The strike threat by a major chunk of Air India's over 28,000 employees from Monday was called off today with the ailing national carrier promising to clear all their salary and other dues by June.

A 42-year-old man has been arrested from Bengaluru for allegedly giving a bomb threat to Akasa Air as he wanted to delay a flight for his wife who had reached the airport late, Mumbai police said on Wednesday.

Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra Friday expressed deep concern over the threat video released by designated terrorist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun and emphasised "serious security concerns" it poses.

The Azur Air international flight from Moscow which made an emergency landing at Jamnagar airport in Gujarat following a bomb threat finally arrived at its destination Goa today afternoon, an official said.

A US-bound Air India flight made an unscheduled landing in London for what the airline initially called a "bomb threat". Minutes later, the tweet was deleted without any update being offered. Much later, news agency Reuters reported that an airline official said it was a hoax.

Air India's Mumbai control centre on Saturday received a phone call threatening to hijack its plane, following which Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) ordered all airlines and CISF to follow specific enhanced measures to ensure security, according to an official note.

The Indian Air Force or IAF is set to hold one of its biggest wargames specifically designed to deal with any simultaneous threat posed by Pakistan and China. The exercises, called Gagan Shakti 2018, are scheduled to take place anytime between the April 11 and 21 and will see the Indian Air Force mobilise 1100 aircraft including fighters, transport...

An Air India check-in counter at Kolkata airport received a call from a woman claiming that there is a bomb on its Guwahati-bound flight. The call was received before the flight was scheduled to take-off.

Four bomb threat calls received in quick succession at Delhi and Bengaluru airports forced aviation authorities ground three flights, including two international, sending a panic wave among fliers.

As passenger frisking and checking has increased at Mumbai Airport, following a series of threat calls and messages, a female passenger was detained during late hours of Tuesday, after security found four live bullets in her baggage.

A city court on Monday remanded Prasanta Biswas, arrested for allegedly making a threat call to the city office of Air India here that one of its planes will be hijacked, to judicial custody till January 9.

One person was today arrested by the Special Task Force (STF) of Kolkata Police from Bongaon area in North 24 Parganas district for allegedly making a threat call to the city office of Air India.

An anonymous telephone call threatening that an Air India plane would be hijacked was made to the Kolkata office of the state-owned carrier on Saturday evening, police said.

Police and CISF personnel were on high alert at the Kochi Airport following an anonymous call on Tuesday morning that a bomb was planted there.

The threat of another pilots' stir in Air India loomed large today, as one of its international flight was cancelled and two more delayed by over 16 hours after a section of pilots reported sick, apparently to protest against the rescheduling of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner training programme.

The strike threat by a major chunk of Air India's over 28,000 employees from Monday was called off today with the ailing national carrier promising to clear all their salary and other dues by June.