Girl in jail custody for SMS

Kolkata: M Ahuja, arrested after thorough interrogation by different agencies for creating the hijack scare in a Kolkata-Delhi flight last night through her SMS, was remanded to judicial custody for 14 days by a North 24 Parganas district Court today.
The SMS by Ahuja (25) caused a hijack scare on the Indigo flight (6E-274) that compelled the Airports Authority of India to bring back the plane from Varanasi sky to Kolkata's N S C Bose international airport last night.
She was arrested earlier in the day and interrogated by the police to find out as to what prompted her to send the SMS and later put under arrest.
The girl had sent the message about a hijack scare on board the flight to her father. It compelled the the Air Traffic Control (ATC) to alert the pilot. On receiving the SMS her father contacted the Airports Authority of India that led to the abandoning of the flight and its return to Kolkata with 138 passengers and three crew members.
12/03/07 PTI/The Hindu

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Categories: Airports Mar 2007, Indigo Airlines Mar 2007, Safety Mar 2007