A Mumbai-bound Vistara Airlines flight from Delhi was delayed for about two hours after a passenger said she overheard a fellow traveler speaking about a bomb in his bag, a claim that was later declared a hoax, official sources said Thursday.
A designated committee of multiple security, intelligence, airport operations and aviation agencies was convened at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport around 6.10 pm on Wednesday to ascertain this claim reported for flight no UK-941 (Delhi to Mumbai), which was scheduled to depart at 4.55 pm, they said.
The passenger reported to the airline crew that she overheard a male passenger saying to someone on phone that the “CISF could not detect the bomb that was in my bag”, the sources said.
