Chennai-Mumbai IndiGo flight, CSMIA, 60 hospitals get hoax bomb threat e-mails
Hindustan TimesMumbai: An IndiGo flight from Chennai to Mumbai landed at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport at 10.24 pm on Tuesday amidst a full emergency after receiving a bomb threat. “We are working with the security agencies and, post completion of all security checks, the aircraft will be positioned back in the terminal area.” The incident occurred on a day when 41 airports across the country, including CSMIA, received bomb threat emails, prompting authorities to scramble contingency measures and carry out anti-sabotage checks that lasted hours. On June 2, a Vistara flight operating on the Paris-Mumbai route received a bomb threat, after which a full emergency was declared at the Mumbai airport prior to its arrival. On June 1, an IndiGo flight from Chennai to Mumbai with 172 passengers on board received a bomb threat, following which the aircraft made an emergency landing in Mumbai.