The same thing 9W used to do indirectly years ago so that the IC pax wud come in 9W flights and they were paid for it in Kolkatta

Any idea why the bugger did this? Did he have his girlfriend leaving on this flight as well??

karatecatman wrote:

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 Ganguly rang up the office of the Airport Director at about 1920 hours thrice yesterday, claiming that a bomb would explode on the evening flight of ’Indian’ IC-402 that would be leaving Kolkata for Delhi later that evening.

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PTI

 

More to the tale!!

 

Remanded to five days’ p.c.

 Kolkata, Jun 21 (PTI) An employee in a local call centre was arrested today for making a hoax call warning of a bomb planted in an Indian flight from Kolkata to Delhi here last night.

 The call made in Hindi saying that the aircraft would be blown up caused the Indian flight IC264, with 123 passengers from Delhi on board, to land in emergency conditions at the international airport here late last night.

 The caller identified as 28-year-old Debanjan Ganguly, a resident of North Kolkata’s Manicktala area, was picked up from his house after the call to the Airports Authority of India office was traced to a central Kolkata PCO from the number on the Caller Line Identity, the police said.

 He was stated to be an employee in a call centre in central Kolkata’s Hare street area.

 The man confessed that he had made the call, said North 24 Parganas district Superintendent of Police Praveen Kumar.

 He was remanded to five days’ police custody after being produced before a North 24 Parganas district court during the day.

 Anti-explosive experts, aided by snifer dogs, after searched the aircraft but found no explosive in the plane which returned to Delhi after midnight.

Some People never learn.

regds

MEL

Why do these people always only get AI or IC? As it is their flights are delayed

www.uninews.com

Bomb scare at NSCBI airport, Biman airlines cancelled

Kolkata, Aug 8 (UNI)

Security was tightened at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International (NSCBI) airport today after a bomb scare.

Airport sources said an unidentified caller rang up Assistant Commissioner, Customs, around 1400 hrs, warning him in English that two Bangladesh Biman flights from Dhaka contained RDX explosives.

However, one of the flights PG 091 from Dhaka had already arrived at 1000 hrs and subsequently left for Bangladesh capital.

The second flight PG 093 is also expected from Dhaka in the evening.

The entry of visitors to the airport had been banned earlier for security reasons, airport sources said adding following the telephonic call security agencies had been asked to be specially alert.

The flight was eventually cancelled as learnt from the airport sources.

Bangladesh Biman authorities fearing a vigorious search of the aircraft and passengers at Kolkata cancelled the flight. 

 

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3 packets found in Bangladesh Airline plane

Three unclaimed packets were today found in a Bangladesh Airlines Biman flight from Chittagong with 67 people on board after it landed here amidst full emergency condition following a phone call that RDX has been planted in the plane.

 ‘‘Three unclaimed packets were recovered during thorough search by security agencies inside the aircraft (BG-697) from Chittagong,’’ Airports Authority of India’s Regional Executive Director S P S Bakshi told PTI.

 He said the packets were sent to the cooling pit to examine if they contained explosives.

 The aircraft, Bakshi said, has been cleared for return to Dhaka after the search.

 All 62 passengers and five crew members on the flight were taken out of the aircraft which was taken to an isolation bay immediately after it touched down at the NSC Bose International Airport here at around 4.40 pm.

 All the passengers were frisked and their baggage checked by security agencies.

 

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 Another Bangladesh Biman flight, with 62 passengers on board, landed at the airport at around 10:30 pm, four hours behind the scheduled time of 6;40 pm, airport sources said.

 The delay was due to thorough security check at Dhaka airport following the information by Kolkata air traffic control (ATC) regarding the bomb threat call.

 Personnel of Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and police cordoned off the aircraft and a search was continuing for explosives, the sources said.

 The plane was being checked at a bay in international terminal and not taken to the isolation bay like the Chittagong-Kolkata Biman flight, AAI sources said.

 The flight also accomodated passengers of another Bangladesh Biman plane, the sources said.

 The flight will take off after necessary clearance following the check.

 Meanwhile airport sources said it could take minimum 24 hours (rpt 24 hours) to examine the three unclaimed packets kept in cooling pit after being found in the other Biman flight from Chittagong in the afternoon.