New Delhi/Mumbai: A ‘specific’ bomb threat on Twitter led to a Mumbai-Dubai Jet Airways flight making an emergency landing in Muscat on Thursday. The threat was reported in flight number 9W 536, which had left Mumbai at 12.46pm. The threat to a Jet Airways plane comes two days after a Turkish Airlines plane to Istanbul from Bangkok landed at IGI Airport in the capital under emergency conditions following a bomb scare.
The flight with 54 passengers and 7 crew onboard landed at Muscat airport and Omani security agencies’ initial search found no bomb or explosive on the flight.
According to the Central Industry Security Force (CISF), around 1.31 pm, Mumbai International Airport private Limited (MIAL) general manager Balvir Singh received a message from Jet Airways staffer that her staff had come across a tweet on Twitter by one Surinder Pratap of Punjab Ludhiyana. The tweet read: “BOMB SPOTTED IN JET AIRWAYS 9W 536 FROM MUMBAI TO DUBAI DEP. AT 1225 FROM CSIA…..OPERATION Badala”.
At 1.45pm, a Bomb Threat Action Committee (BTAC) was formed at Mumbai airport and within six minutes, the committee unanimously decided the threat as a “specific threat message”. The Mumbai ATC then informed the Muscat ATC about the bomb threat at 1.55pm and the flight got diverted to Muscat and landed at 2.50pm.
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The flight with 54 passengers and 7 crew onboard landed at Muscat airport and Omani security agencies’ initial search found no bomb or explosive on the flight.
According to the Central Industry Security Force (CISF), around 1.31 pm, Mumbai International Airport private Limited (MIAL) general manager Balvir Singh received a message from Jet Airways staffer that her staff had come across a tweet on Twitter by one Surinder Pratap of Punjab Ludhiyana. The tweet read: “BOMB SPOTTED IN JET AIRWAYS 9W 536 FROM MUMBAI TO DUBAI DEP. AT 1225 FROM CSIA…..OPERATION Badala”.
At 1.45pm, a Bomb Threat Action Committee (BTAC) was formed at Mumbai airport and within six minutes, the committee unanimously decided the threat as a “specific threat message”. The Mumbai ATC then informed the Muscat ATC about the bomb threat at 1.55pm and the flight got diverted to Muscat and landed at 2.50pm.
10/07/15 Indian Express
