A Toronto-bound Air Canada flight which was scheduled to take off from Delhi received a bomb threat email late on Tuesday.
The Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi received the threat email at around 10.50 pm. The flight was scheduled to depart for Toronto at around 10.50 pm was sent to the isolation day.
The airport authorities carried a thorough inspection. However, nothing suspicious was found.
Delhi Police said in a statement, ‘On 4th June at 10.50 PM, an email was received in DIAL (Delhi International Airport Limited) office, IGI Airport with the threat of a bomb inside Air Canada flight which was scheduled to depart to Toronto’.
It added, ‘Following standard security protocols, a thorough inspection was conducted and nothing suspicious was found’.
A legal action has been initiated in the matter. The threat turned out to be a hoax. In a similar incident last, a Delhi-bound IndiGo flight from Varanasi received a bomb threat. The Delhi Airport authority had on Saturday received a threat regarding a bomb allegedly being carried by a passenger on the Delhi-bound Indigo flight number 6E 2232 from Varanasi.
The flight was coming from Varanasi to the national capital on Saturday evening, when the bomb scare was flagged at the airport.
The airport security and the IGI Airport police implemented preventive measures and evacuated a runway for the emergency landing of the aircraft.
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