The message claimed that there were 12 bombers spread across six Indigo flights, with two bombers on each plane. The flights mentioned were IX233, IX375, IX481, IX383, IX549, and IX399.

Six flights faced bomb threats via social media before landing at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport on Saturday. All threats from a single social media account were deemed hoaxes after checks.

A bomb threat was sent to the Bengaluru airport command centre via an anonymous account on X, claiming there were 12 bombers distributed across six IndiGo flights, with two on each aircraft. The flights identified were IX233, IX375, IX481, IX383, IX549, and IX399, according to an India Today report.

At the same time, an IndiGo flight operating from Istanbul in Turkiye for Mumbai also received a bomb threat and was taken to an isolation bay here for the security agencies to carry out a comprehensive security check.

Amid the wave of hoax bomb threats to Indian airlines, with as many as 70 such posts made during the current week, nearly 70% were from a single source: an anonymous and unverified account on X that posted threats to 46 domestic and international flights of Indian carriers in two days.

Over 45 aircraft received bomb threats today, pushing the total number of such incidents to more than 70 in the past six days. All threats were communicated via social media, either through direct messages sent to airlines or by tagging them in posts,