A bomb scare on an IndiGo airlines Patna to Delhi flight caused panic and brought the operations to a standstill at the Jay Prakash Narayan International Airport in Bihar capital here on the intervening night of Thursday and Friday.
The incident occurred when passengers had boarded flight 6E 2126 and it was ready to take off at around 8.55pm on Thursday. One passenger was heard claiming that he had a bomb in his bag and would explode it.
According to the sources the passenger, identified as one Rishi Chand Singh Bedi, apparently mentally disturbed, talked about the bomb apparently in an argument with his parents who were travelling with him.