New Delhi:

A Canadian Air Pressure plane is ferrying 191 stranded passengers of an Air India flight from Iqaluit airport to Chicago on Wednesday, a day after the flight was diverted to the airport owing to a bomb risk.

The plane departed from Iqaluit at 3.54 am UTC (9.30 am IST) and is predicted to land in Chicago at round 7.48 am UTC (1.15 pm IST).  Air India’s Boeing 777-300 ER plane enroute to Chicago from Delhi was diverted to the Canadian airport following a bomb risk on Tuesday. It had 211 folks, together with 20 crew members.

At the very least 10 Indian flights have acquired hoax bomb threats within the final 48 hours, a difficulty over which a Parliamentary Standing Committee and the Ministry of Civil Aviation will meet at 11 am.

Other than the Air India Delhi-Chicago flight, the Dammam-Lucknow IndiGo flight, Ayodhya-Bengaluru Air India Categorical, a SpiceJet flight from Darbhanga to Mumbai (SG116), an Akasa Air flight from Bagdogra to Bengaluru (QP 1373) an Alliance Air Amritsar-Dehradun-Delhi flight (9I 650) and an Air India Categorical flight (IX 684) from Madurai to Singapore additionally acquired bomb threats on Tuesday.

On Monday, two IndiGo and one Air India flight acquired hoax threats. These included an Air India flight AI119 from Mumbai to New York’s JFK Airport, and IndiGo flight 6E1275 certain for Muscat, and flight 6E56 heading to Jeddah.

The pretend bomb threats have been created from an unverified X deal with and the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) is investigating the matter.