Flight company IndiGo receives bomb threat in airborne flight

In the wee hours of today’s morning flight, a mysterious bomb threat was called in, paning the flight officials.

Low-cost carrier IndiGo was today warned of a bomb on a Jaipur-Mumbai flight that was already in the air.

IndiGo’s call centre received the call at around 5:30 this morning from an unidentified person. The person told the airline that there was a bomb threat to the 6E 218 flight, which operates between Jaipur and Mumbai.

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The flight had already departed when the call was received. According to flight tracker FlightStats, the flight’s scheduled departure is at 5:05 am; it lands in Mumbai at 7 am.

“We immediately reported the matter to Bomb Threat Assessment Committee (BTAC) and followed all laid down security protocols,” IndiGo said in a statement.

The bomb threat was analysed and was classified as a “specific bomb threat”, IndiGo further said. Investigations, however, found the call to be essentially a hoax.

“Following the clearance by the authorities, operations will be resumed as normal,” IndiGo said.