Indian Airlines Suffer Through 1,000 Hoax Bomb Scares

Airports and airlines in India have been hit with nearly 1,000 fake bomb threats as of earlier this month. (Credit: Yawar Nazir/Getty Images)

India's airlines and airports reportedly received nearly 1,000 fake bomb threats as of early November, disrupting flight schedules and wreaking havoc on services.

Murlidhar Mohol, the country's deputy civil aviation minister, told parliament that 999 bogus threats had been received as of Nov. 14, with more than half of them coming in the last two weeks of October, the BBC reported.