Flight UK25 from Delhi to Frankfurt, carrying over 240 passengers, was diverted back to Delhi due to a non-specific bomb threat after Afghanistan denied overflight permission. The aircraft landed safely at 1620 hours after circling in Pakistan airspace.

Vistara and Akasa Air faced security threats on twelve flights, activating emergency protocols to ensure safety. Both airlines coordinated with authorities to address threats effectively, keeping passenger and crew safety as a top priority while ensuring disruptions were minimized.

Vistara had reported receiving security threats for six of its flights, including UK25, amid a week that saw nearly 100 bomb threats targeting various flights, most of which were later determined to be hoaxes.

With this, in the past few days, over 40 flights operated by the Indian carriers have received bomb threats which later turned out to be hoaxes.

The Civil Aviation Ministry plans to put in place strict norms to prevent incidents of hoax bomb threats to airlines, including placing the perpetrators in the no-fly list.

As many as six flights each of the IndiGo and Akasa Air received fresh bomb threats on Sunday amid a spate of hoaxes. Here are the details:

Vistara has confirmed that that the airline received 'security threats', on social media for six flights operating on 20 October 2024. The flights include , Flight UK25 (Delhi to Frankfurt), Flight UK106 (Singapore to Mumbai),

On Sunday, six Bengaluru-bound IndiGo flights received bomb threats through an anonymous post on X (formerly Twitter), claiming there were two bombers on each of the planes. This incident brings the total number of such threats to nearly 200 in just a week,

The latest series of hoax calls comes a day after the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) met with airline CEOs on October 19 after multiple flights received at least 70 hoax bomb threats in the past week.