Mumbai: Non-availability of aircraft due to maintenance issues has forced Tata Group-owned Air India to cancel some 60 flights on the India-US routes between November and December this year, according to an airline source.

Indira Gandhi International Airport have reportedly tightened security checks, while investigating is ongoing on how the ammunition might have made it onto the flight undetected.

This comes at a time when Indian airlines have been hit by scores of fake bomb threats—mostly posted on social media platform X from anonymous and unverified accounts—over the past three weeks.

The flight landed at New Delhi airport on October 27, and all passengers were safely taken off the plane, ANI quoted an Air India spokesperson as saying.

Live round of ammunition found on Air India flight from Dubai, leading to FIR and security breach investigation.

The Delhi Police are investigating a case of security breach after a live cartridge was found in a pocket seat of an Air India flight landing from Dubai recently, PTI reported. A police officer told PTI that an Air India staff found the live round of ammunition during routine cleaning on a flight on October 27.

The flight landed at New Delhi Airport on October 27 and all the passengers were safely disembarked from the flight

Ammunition cartridges were found in a seat pocket after an Air India flight from Dubai to New Delhi landed. A complaint was lodged with the Airport Police. In a separate incident, a bomb threat received by another Air India flight to New Delhi was declared a hoax after security checks at Nepal's Tribhuvan International Airport.

An ammunition cartridge was discovered on an Air India flight from Dubai to Delhi, prompting an airport police complaint. This follows a surge in hoax bomb threats impacting Indian flights and airports.