New Delhi: A Goa-bound Air Asia flight from Bengaluru was delayed after a bomb scare today. Flight I5 1721's departure was put on hold after a threat letter was found in the washroom of the Kempegowda International Airport.
This was the third incident of bomb scare on a plane today.
An Air India and a Jet Airways flight travelling from Delhi to Kathmandu were delayed earlier following a bomb threat call. Authorities said the caller, who claimed to be from Turkey, was using Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP)due to which the call could not be traced.
A Kathmandu-bound Jet Airways flight with 111 people on board was on Monday halted minutes before take-off from Delhi's IGI Airport after a bomb threat. The caller claimed a "gift on a seat' and signed off saying "Happy Republic Day". The call was a hoax.
Tackling hoax bomb calls are a regular thing for security authorities ahead of important dates like - January 26 and August 15. However, this year the frequency of hoax calls has been unusually high.
With the country facing a heightened security threat in the wake of Pathankot terror attack and ISIS, Al Qaeda associates being arrested in raids across the country in the past week, security agencies are taking no chances. But no arrest has been reported in such cases so far which certainly raises a few questions.
27/01/16 India Today
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This was the third incident of bomb scare on a plane today.
An Air India and a Jet Airways flight travelling from Delhi to Kathmandu were delayed earlier following a bomb threat call. Authorities said the caller, who claimed to be from Turkey, was using Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP)due to which the call could not be traced.
A Kathmandu-bound Jet Airways flight with 111 people on board was on Monday halted minutes before take-off from Delhi's IGI Airport after a bomb threat. The caller claimed a "gift on a seat' and signed off saying "Happy Republic Day". The call was a hoax.
Tackling hoax bomb calls are a regular thing for security authorities ahead of important dates like - January 26 and August 15. However, this year the frequency of hoax calls has been unusually high.
With the country facing a heightened security threat in the wake of Pathankot terror attack and ISIS, Al Qaeda associates being arrested in raids across the country in the past week, security agencies are taking no chances. But no arrest has been reported in such cases so far which certainly raises a few questions.
27/01/16 India Today
