Hyderabad airport receives three bomb threats against incoming flights

Sources said that Rajiv Gandhi International Airport has received three threats to bomb flights coming from different cities, including two international ones.

The airport received emails late on Sunday (December 7) targeting British Airways (BA 277) from Heathrow, Lufthansa (LH 752) from Frankfurt and IndiGo’s 6E 7178 from Kannur.

Airport sources said all flights landed safely. Two international flights landed here in the early hours of Monday (December 8).

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“Standard security protocols were initiated for all three aircraft,” sources said.

Sources said standard security protocols include isolating the aircraft, checking luggage and passengers, keeping fire engines on standby and putting sniffer dogs into service.

Last week, RGIA received separate bomb threat emails for the Dubai-Hyderabad Emirates flight and IndiGo’s Madinah-Hyderabad and Sharjah-Hyderabad flights.

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Madina-Hyderabad was diverted towards Ahmedabad airport.