BENGALURU: “It’s a machine!” he said. “Machine gun?” she asked. This misunderstanding between a Dutch national who was carrying a box along with a guitar and the cabin crew, left more than 150 people, headed to Singapore, stranded at the Kempegowda International Airport for 14 hours on Tuesday.
The flight, operated by budget carrier Scoot, was scheduled to depart from KIA to Singapore at 1.20am on Tuesday, but instead took off with a furious batch of passengers, only at 5.23 pm, half a day later. According to a senior police officer, the flight — TR573 — was initially delayed by 28 minutes and at 1.48am, when it was about to take off, one of the crew members asked the Dutch national what was in the box as part of a regular conversation. This was when the entire drama unfolded.
