Bomb threat alert
Thiruvananthapuram airport declares a “emergency” following a bomb threat on an Air India flight.
After the aircraft safely descended into an isolation bay upon landing at the airport at around eight in the morning, the passengers were released.
After receiving a bomb threat on an Air India flight coming from Mumbai on Thursday, Thiruvananthapuram Airport declared a full emergency.
After the plane touched down at the airport at around eight in the morning, the passengers were safely evacuated by eight forty-four.
As the plane approached Thiruvananthapuram airport at around 7.30 am, the pilot reported the danger. According to PTI, there were 135 passengers on board, and more information regarding the threat’s origin and other facts is still coming.
At 7:36 a.m., the airport declared a full emergency as a result of the communication. The report also stated that there has been no effect on lives and that airport operations are continuing as usual.
However, more information is needed, including the threat’s origins.
“Air India flight AI657 from Mumbai to Thiruvananthapuram on August 22nd detected a specific security alert.” The aircraft made a safe landing in Thiruvananthapuram and was stored in a secluded bay so that security personnel could do their required inspections. A representative for Air India was quoted by ANI as saying, “All passengers and crew disembarked safely.”A 13-year-old boy was arrested by officials on June 17 after he allegedly sent an email to Delhi Airport purporting to have planted a bomb on a flight that was headed for Dubai.
After receiving the email, airport officials declared an emergency and put Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi on high alert.
Usha Rangnani, the Deputy Commissioner of Police (IGI Airport), stated that the child sent the email “just for fun” after learning of another adolescent who had called in a fake bomb threat a few days prior.
Threats from hoax bombs against hospitals and airports have escalated recently. On June 18, emails containing bomb threats were received by 41 airports, including those in Jaipur, Chennai, and Varanasi. This prompted hours-long, thorou
Earlier, around 60 hospitals across Mumbai had also received hoax emails about bombs kept in their premises. Mumbai police had said this included both private and public hospitals and all emails were sent using Virtual Private Networks (VPN) to the hospital’s public mail-id’s.gh anti-sabotage checks, but it was discovered that all of the threats were false.
Previously, fictitious emails concerning bombs kept on their property were sent to roughly sixty hospitals throughout Mumbai. According to Mumbai police, all emails were sent to the hospital’s public email addresses using Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), and this encompassed both public and private facilities.
