Kochi: Marking the culmination of a bomb-scare drama that lasted about two days, the Mumbai-Kochi flight of Air India flew into the Cochin International Airport amid high security arrangements on Saturday.
The flight AI054 touched down at the airport here at 7.40 a.m. with 123 passengers and six crew members on board. The passengers and their luggage were cleared after detailed examinations and the threat was later declared unfounded.
“All is clear and the bomb threat now appears to be a hoax,” said an airport official, adding that the aircraft was ready for its return trip to Mumbai later in the day.
Security at the airport had been beefed up since Friday on the direction of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) in the wake of a suicide bomb threat on a couple of Air India flights. An anonymous call, received at the regional office of the Airports Authority of India at Kolkata, threatened suicide bomb blasts on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai flight scheduled for Friday midnight and the Mumbai-Kochi flight scheduled early Saturday.
26/10/14 The Hindu
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The flight AI054 touched down at the airport here at 7.40 a.m. with 123 passengers and six crew members on board. The passengers and their luggage were cleared after detailed examinations and the threat was later declared unfounded.
“All is clear and the bomb threat now appears to be a hoax,” said an airport official, adding that the aircraft was ready for its return trip to Mumbai later in the day.
Security at the airport had been beefed up since Friday on the direction of the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) in the wake of a suicide bomb threat on a couple of Air India flights. An anonymous call, received at the regional office of the Airports Authority of India at Kolkata, threatened suicide bomb blasts on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai flight scheduled for Friday midnight and the Mumbai-Kochi flight scheduled early Saturday.
26/10/14 The Hindu
