Suspicious package grounds Air India flight in T.O. - Airliners-India

VOTV · Member

Suspicious package grounds Air India flight in T.O.

karatecatman · Member

More details in "Why does Air India never learn".

-- Edited by karatecatman at 18:43, 2006-09-19

Aseem · Member

VOTV wrote:

An Air India Flight was turned back to Toronto's Pearson International airport Monday night after reports that a suspicious package was found on board.link

Police check Air India plane after Canada scare

Reuters
Tuesday, September 19, 2006; 9:25 AM

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian police were investigating on Tuesday after an Air India flight turned back to Toronto after reports of a suspicious package aboard.

"At approximately 11 p.m. last night, our officers responded in regards to an Air India flight that had a suspicious object on board," Peel Police Sgt. Derek Rice said. "We're still investigating to identify what the package is."

Baggage was being screened again on the flight, which was bound for Birmingham, England.

Canadian media said the pilot radioed a request to return to Toronto about an hour into the flight.

Police will give more details of their investigation later on Tuesday.

Last week, a Dubai-bound Air India flight was diverted to a military airbase due to an erroneous alert issued by the Indian aviation authorities.

Washington Post

What happened in DXB? Never heard about it..

rgds

VT-ASJ

karatecatman · Member

Aseem,

The media has been reporting it ewrroneously as Air India. It was actually the INDIAN Mumbai flight to Dubai.

It was actually a hijacking threat. US.intelligence tipped off the GOI of the possibility of a hijack, which was why the A320 was made in land in a Dubai airforce base.

There was also a report of Dubai security semi-storming the plane.

The complete report on this is inthe thread: "Indian flight makes emergency landing at Cochin".

The incident was downplayed but it was a genuine threat.

-- Edited by karatecatman at 21:25, 2006-09-19