A report within the Indian Specific stated that an nameless account on X, previously Twitter, was suspended after posting bomb threats to not less than 40 flights on Friday and Saturday.
This included flights operated by each Indian and worldwide airways, together with some from the USA and New Zealand.
“There are bombs positioned onboard … Nobody will make out alive. Hurry up and evacuate the aircraft,” learn the an identical messages from the suspended account, the newspaper reported.
Amongst current flights impacted was an Air India flight from Mumbai to New York, with US safety officers sweeping the aircraft after its secure touchdown on Saturday.
Different flights impacted embody an Air India aircraft from New Delhi to Chicago, which was pressured to make an emergency touchdown within the far northern Canadian metropolis of Iqaluit on Tuesday.
Canada’s air power needed to fly the passengers on.
On the identical day, Singapore scrambled fighter jets to escort an Air India Specific aircraft.
On Thursday, British Royal Air Pressure fighter jets escorted an Air India Boeing 777-300 after a menace was made in opposition to the aircraft, which landed safely in London.
On Friday, a Vistara flight from New Delhi to London needed to divert to Frankfurt in Germany.
