An Indian Express report mentioned an nameless account on X, previously Twitter, has been suspended after posting bomb threats on at the very least 40 flights on Friday and Saturday.
This included flights operated by Indian and worldwide airways, together with some from the US and New Zealand.
“There are bombs planted on board… No one will survive. Hurry and evacuate the aircraft,” learn the identical messages from the suspended account, the newspaper reported.
Among the not too long ago affected flights was an Air India flight from Mumbai to New York, with US safety officers wiping out the aircraft after its secure touchdown on Saturday.
Other affected flights 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.
The Canadian Air Force needed to transfer the passengers onward.
On the identical day, Singapore scrambled fighter jets to escort an Air India Express aircraft.
On Thursday, fighter jets from Britain’s Royal Air Force escorted an Air India Boeing 777-300 after a menace was made towards the aircraft, which landed safely in London.
A Vistara flight from New Delhi to London needed to divert to Frankfurt in Germany on Friday.
