The spate of bomb threats to Indian flights continued with a Vistara Frankfurt-Mumbai flight being the subject of security threat. The incident happened late on October 16, Wednesday, an airline spokesperson said on Thursday. Earlier in the day, nine new incidents of hoax bomb threats were reported by several other airlines like IndiGo, Air India etc. 

In their statement dated October 17, the airline said that the Vistara flight UK 028 received a security threat via social media and that the flight was taken to isolation bay as soon as it landed at Mumbai airport. The spokesperson further stated that all passengers alighted from the flight in the isolation bay.