Mumbai: Minutes after a Jet Airways flight from Mumbai to Kuwait began taxiing to the Mumbai runway for take off, it returned back to the bay after a passenger found a bomb threat message scribbled on a document onboard the aircraft. The incident happened on Saturday night.
The incident took place around 10.15pm, when the Jet flight 9 W 574 was pushed back for departure. "A passenger on board the flight was reading the safety instruction booklet, when he found a message scribbled on it. It said that there was a bomb onboard the flight," said an airline official.
The passenger alerted the cabin crew who in turn informed the commander of the flight. "The captain decided to take the aircraft back to the bay," the official added. The aircraft returned to the bay at 10.25pm. The CISF personnel and the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad were called in. The airline filed a police case in the matter.
29/11/15 Manju V/Times of India
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The incident took place around 10.15pm, when the Jet flight 9 W 574 was pushed back for departure. "A passenger on board the flight was reading the safety instruction booklet, when he found a message scribbled on it. It said that there was a bomb onboard the flight," said an airline official.
The passenger alerted the cabin crew who in turn informed the commander of the flight. "The captain decided to take the aircraft back to the bay," the official added. The aircraft returned to the bay at 10.25pm. The CISF personnel and the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad were called in. The airline filed a police case in the matter.
29/11/15 Manju V/Times of India
