Airline hijack fears are allayed

Manama: Aviation officials yesterday played down fears following a reported terrorist threat to hijack a flight from India to the Gulf. Sources told the GDN the alert related to a flight to or from Dubai in the UAE last week.
Press reports said security on board Air India and Indian flights to the Gulf had been stepped up after the threat.
Both airlines together operate 150 flights a week to various Gulf destinations, including Bahrain, the UAE and Qatar.
India's Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) deputy commissioner of security, B S Tiwari said it was not clear how the threat originated but measures were in place in co-operation with the airlines concerned.
"While we never take airport security lightly, sometimes we do receive some extra information from defence intelligence units and take steps accordingly," he said from New Delhi.
08/02/08 Mandeep Singh/Gulf Daily News, Bahrain

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