Overview

• A crew member discovered a handwritten note on a piece of tissue paper inside an Air India plane parked at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport early June 27.
• Central Industrial Security Force teams and the Delhi Fire Service carried out a thorough search of the aircraft and surrounding terminal before declaring the alert a hoax.
• Terminal 3 operations were briefly held as security personnel used sniffer dogs and bomb-detection units to clear the area.
• Investigation efforts are now focused on tracing how and when the threat note was placed on board and identifying its author.
• This incident follows a wave of similar false bomb scares in India, including more than 250 flights disrupted last October and other hoaxes earlier this year.