Air Canada Delhi-Toronto Plane Gets Bomb Threat Amid String Of Similar Flight Scares – News18
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The aircraft has been directed to the isolation bay for security measures, with screening procedures underway. (Representative image/Reuters)
Air Canada flight AC43 faces bomb threat in Delhi, screening underway. Vistara flights also targeted in recent security scares
Air Canada flight AC43, scheduled to depart for Toronto, received a bomb threat via email just before leaving Delhi on Tuesday night, according to media reports, amid a string of similar incidents reported in the past few weeks.
The aircraft has been directed to the isolation bay for security measures, with screening procedures underway, India Today reported. This incident comes days after a Mumbai-bound Vistara flight with 306 persons onboard from Paris received a bomb threat after which a full emergency was declared at the city airport in the financial capital of India.
Back-To-Back Threats
Vistara on Sunday reported that its,” flight UK 024 from Paris’ Charles de Gualle airport to Mumbai” received a handwritten note on an airsickness bag threatening a bomb.
Vistara in a statement confirmed that “a security concern has been noted by our staff while onboard the airline’s flight UK 024 operating from Paris to Mumbai on 2 June 2024.”
Last week, Vistara flight UK611 from Delhi was targeted by a bomb threat. Before that on May 1, IndiGo flight 6E-5314 from Chennai to Mumbai also faced a similar threat. On May 28, another IndiGo flight from Delhi to Varanasi encountered a similar situation.
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