Ranchi: A bomb hoax at Ranchi’s Birsa Munda airport delayed a Delhi-bound Vistara flight (UK-754) on Monday evening. The flight scheduled for departure at 8.25pm finally took off at 10.40pm.
Sources said the airport manager of Vistara (Tata SIA Airlines Limited) received a call from man who identified himself as Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) official Satish Kumar Singh and said that a bomb has been planted on the aircraft. Airport authorities immediately alerted the CISF and the state police and the flight was evacuated and checked by a bomb squad. No trace of any explosives was found on the aircraft.
Airport director Vinod Sharma said a man by the same name was also on the list of passengers, but had not checked in for the flight. “It could well be a case of a man trying to stop a flight because he was unable to reach the airport on time for his flight,” he said.
Hatia DSP Prabhat Ranjan Barwar, who led the inspection team along with a bomb squad and dog squad of the state police, said that the entire process of conducting a through checking was completed in half an hour.
Police are yet to trace the whereabouts of the passenger with the same name as the caller as his mobile was switched off and he had not reached the airport. “We are going to lodge an FIR against him for further investigation. As of now we only have his personal details that he submitted to Vistara as its passenger,” SP (City) Hari Lal Chouhan said.
23/07/19 Gaurav Pandey/Times of India
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Sources said the airport manager of Vistara (Tata SIA Airlines Limited) received a call from man who identified himself as Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) official Satish Kumar Singh and said that a bomb has been planted on the aircraft. Airport authorities immediately alerted the CISF and the state police and the flight was evacuated and checked by a bomb squad. No trace of any explosives was found on the aircraft.
Airport director Vinod Sharma said a man by the same name was also on the list of passengers, but had not checked in for the flight. “It could well be a case of a man trying to stop a flight because he was unable to reach the airport on time for his flight,” he said.
Hatia DSP Prabhat Ranjan Barwar, who led the inspection team along with a bomb squad and dog squad of the state police, said that the entire process of conducting a through checking was completed in half an hour.
Police are yet to trace the whereabouts of the passenger with the same name as the caller as his mobile was switched off and he had not reached the airport. “We are going to lodge an FIR against him for further investigation. As of now we only have his personal details that he submitted to Vistara as its passenger,” SP (City) Hari Lal Chouhan said.
23/07/19 Gaurav Pandey/Times of India
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