An IndiGo flight from Mumbai to Lucknow via Delhi was grounded this morning after a bomb threat call, airport sources said. The aircraft was taken to an isolated bay for a secondary ladder point check after a Bomb Threat Assessment Committee or BTAC found the threat as “specific”, the sources said.
After a thorough check, security agencies declared the plane “safe”, they added. “A woman passenger travelling to Delhi on Go Air flight approached the check-in counter and informed that there was a bomb in IndiGo’s flight,” an airport source said.
The woman passenger also showed photographs of a few people and claimed that they were a “threat” to the nation, the source said. The flight later left for Delhi at 8:40 am from Mumbai and arrived in Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport at 10:45 am – more than 2 hours and 25 minutes late. The flight was scheduled to depart at 6:05 am.