Bomb scare on Delhi-Mumbai Indigo flight

23 July,2009 01:43 PM IST |   |  Aditya Anand

A passenger on board Delhi-Mumbai Indigo flight created a scare minutes before it landed in Mumbai claiming there was a bomb on board and demanded that the flight be diverted to Pakistan.


A passenger on board Delhi-Mumbai Indigo flight created a scare minutes before it landed in Mumbai claiming there was a bomb on board and demanded that the flight be diverted to Pakistan.
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Sanjay Mallik traveling on board Indigo flight 6E 181 was arrested, by the Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) officials manning airport security, immediately after the flight landed in Mumbai at 11.45 a.m. "Fifteen minutes before landing the passenger screamed that a bomb had been planted on the aircraft and that it would go off shortly," a CISF commandant said.u00a0u00a0u00a0

Airport police officials who have now interrogated Mallik for interrogation said that the passenger appeared to be mentally unstable. All passengers on the aircraft are safe.

Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS) officials are now conducting a complete search of the aircraft.

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