At least 24 Indian flights got bomb threats on Sunday; week’s tally close to 100

At least 24 Indian flights got bomb threats on Sunday; week’s tally close to 100

The menace of hoax bomb threats via social media to Indian airlines continued on Sunday with at least 24 flights receiving threats, forcing one diversion and a few of the flights declaring emergencies. Most of the threats received by airlines on Sunday came from an anonymous and unverified account —@schizophreniqqq— on social media platform X, per sources in the know. The account was later suspended by X.

On Friday and Saturday, another anonymous X account —@adamlanza111— had posted threats to as many as 46 flights of Indian airlines before being taken down by the social media platform.