A hoax email to airport authorities in Mumbai threatening to blow up an Indigo flight led to a delay of several hours on Saturday. Sahar police registered a case in the matter against unidentified persons on Sunday.
The email was received at around 6.30pm on Saturday on the official email account of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Airport Limited, which is given out to passengers so that they can give feedback about the airport, police said. The single line email, which was sent from an encrypted Proton Mail account, simply said, “I will blow up flight 6E 6045.”
Flight 6E 6045, scheduled to leave for Ahmedabad at 9.30pm, was able to take off at 10.45pm after a safety check.
