[New Delhi,India] Five Jet Airways Planes Receive Bomb Threats:Panic Grips IGI Airport Also After Brussels.Jet airways Has Code Sharing With Middle East Airline Etihad
Panic gripped passengers at the Indira Gandhi international airport today after the Jet Airways call centre received threats about bombs in five of its aircraft from Delhi, hours after blasts ripped through Brussels airport killing 26
While three of the planes had already departed by the time the anonymous call about the bomb threats was received, the fourth aircraft, which was bound for Chennai, was diverted to Nagpur,
Another plane, also bound for Chennai which was preparing for take off, was grounded and is undergoing checks by the security agencies,
Jet Airways said.”Jet Airways has received a security alert for five flights from Delhi. All flights are on ground and are being checked by security agencies at the respective airports,” the airline said in a tweet
Sources said the three planes, which received bomb threats, had already flown to their respective destinations — Gorakhpur, Chandigarh and Dehradun.
Earlier in the day, 26 people were killed and many injured, including two crew members of Jet Airways, in explosions at Brussels international airport
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Jet Airways [5]Planes Receive Bomb Threats:Panic Grips IGI Airport Also
Royal Nepal Airlines+Air India Flights Grounded At IGIA:Bomb Threat
[New Delhi]Royal Nepal Airlines+Air India Flights Grounded At IGIA For 2nd Round Security Check: Bomb Threat Call
Two flights bound for Nepal and Bhubaneswar were today grounded just before taking off after security agencies were alerted of a bomb threat call on the two airliners at the Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA)
Passengers on board the two aircraft– Royal Nepal Airlines (Delhi-Kathmandu) and Air India (Delhi-Bhubaneswar– were evacuated and taken to the isolation bay where security agencies carried out anti-sabotage checks after a threat call was received by the airport control room at about 10 AM.
While the Kathmandu flight (RA-206) had 155 passengers and nine crew members, the flight bound for Odisha’s capital Bhubaneswar (AI-075) had 178 fliers and seven crew members.
Passengers of both the flights and their baggage were subjected to a second round of checking with the Bomb Threat Assessment Committee (BTAC) at the IGIA monitoring the situation.
Security personnel from the CISF and Delhi Police cordoned off the two planes along with bomb disposal squads,
They added the threat was triggered after the airport control room received a call from a person identifying himself as Abhishek Singh, a “CBI officer” and said that while there is a “time bomb” in the Nepal bound flight, some “movement” has happened at the terminal area to hit the AI flight.
Officials said the agencies are trying to track the number and location from where the call was made to the airport call centre.
Preliminary reports said four Members of Parliament were to travel on the AI flight.
Talking about the menace of hoax calls, Central Industrial Security Force chief Surender Singh had said while 44 such calls were received last year at various airports the force is deployed, 16 such calls have been made till early March this year.
Bomb Scare,Today,Forced 40 Minutes Emergency At Delhi Airports
[New Delhi] Bomb Scare Today Disrupted International Flights.40 Minutes Emergency was declared
3 International flights disrupted after hoax bomb call in Delhi.Emergency was declared at 2 am which was ,after through search,called off at 2.40 am
Two international flights were called back while one which was preparing for departure from the Indira Gandhi International Airport was taken to an isolation bay due to a bomb scare early today
At 01.30 AM a threat call was received at the Delhi Airport’s call centre in Gurgaon.
The caller claimed that there were bombs on three international flights
[1] 9W078 of Jet Airways to Hong Kong,
[2]CX694 of Cathay Pacific also bound for Hong Kong and
[3]LX147 of Swiss Air to Zurich As per authorities this later turned out to be hoax,
However, by that time, Jet Airways and Cathay Pacific flights had already left while Swiss flight was preparing for departure.
As per sources ,The Bomb Threat Assessment Committee declared threat as specific at 2 am. Both the Jet Airways and Cathay flights were called back and taken to isolation bay after landing under emergency conditions. Swiss Air flight which was on-ground was also sent to isolation bay,
A thorough search of the aircraft, passengers and their baggage was carried out by the security agencies and later all the three flights were cleared for take-off by them,, adding that emergency was called off at 2:40 AM.
Sources said that some Air India flights from Delhi airport were also delayed due to bomb threat call last evening.
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