The IndiGo flight took off after 6 hours of delay. (Representational picture)
Mangaluru:
A Mangaluru-Mumbai flight was delayed by six hours after a lady passenger raised an alarm a few suspicious textual content message obtained on the cell phone of a fellow traveller.
All of the passengers had been requested to alight from the plane and their baggage was completely checked for any sabotage earlier than the IndiGo flight was allowed to go away for Mumbai on Sunday night, police stated.
A lady passenger observed a message on the cell phone of a person onboard the flight and introduced this to the discover of the cabin crew.
The crew alerted the Air Visitors Controller and the flight that was able to take off returned to the bay.
The person was chatting together with his girlfriend who was to catch a flight to Bengaluru from the identical airport. The person was later not allowed to board the flight because of the questioning that lasted for a number of hours, whereas his girlfriend missed her flight to Karnataka’s capital.
All of the 185 passengers had been later reboarded on the Mumbai-bound flight after thorough checking of the luggage and the aeroplane left at 5 pm.
No grievance has been filed until late evening because it was a pleasant chat between two mates over safety, metropolis police commissioner N Shashi Kumar stated.
