The bags of passengers mendacity on the tarmac because the bomb squad performed an intensive inspection
Chennai:
The departure of a Dubai-bound flight from Chennai Worldwide Airport was delayed in the present day following a hoax bomb menace. An e-mail warning a couple of bomb on the plane delayed the Emirates flight EK 543 by greater than 12 hours, inflicting inconvenience to the passengers.
Upon receiving the menace e-mail, the authorities offloaded the complete baggage on the tarmac for an intensive examine of the flight. The inspection revealed that the menace was a hoax.
The flight with greater than 250 worldwide passengers was scheduled to take off at round 4 am Tuesday however was rescheduled at 10.30 am as a result of heavy rains within the metropolis. The flight is now anticipated to depart previous midnight and the airline shifted passengers to a close-by lodge.
The details about the e-mail was acquired simply earlier than passengers boarded. Images present the luggage of passengers mendacity on the tarmac because the bomb squad performed an intensive inspection.
The e-mail is suspected to have come from Istanbul, Turkey.
“An investigation into the matter is underway. Though bomb menace e-mails have grow to be so frequent, we didn’t need to take any probability because the mail particularly talked about incoming flight EK 542 on this case”, C V Deepak, Airport Director informed NDTV.
Sources within the Airport Authority of India say airports have been instructed to be on excessive alert amid a spike in e-mail threats.
