Aviation Safety Body Calls Airline CEOs For Meeting After Bomb Threats

Over 30 flights received bomb threats on Saturday alone.

With flights operated by Indian airlines receiving an unprecedented 70 bomb threats in six days, aviation safety body Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) has called the chief executive officers (CEOs) of the airlines for a meeting in New Delhi, sources said. 

Over 30 bomb threats were made against flights operated by different airlines on Saturday alone and senior officials from the Union civil aviation ministry and the BCAS held a meeting to discuss ways to tackle the issue, which is causing inconvenience to passengers and losses to carriers. 

Officials said a meeting will be held with the CEOs of the airlines in New Delhi and a date will be announced soon. They said that, In the investigation so far, they have found that the IP (internet protocol) addresses from which some of the threats were made were from London, Germany, Canada and the US. They did not, however, rule out the use of VPN (virtual private networks) by the people who made the threats to hide their actual locations.