‘Bomber’ word in message on passenger’s phone creates panic in plane, Mangaluru-Mumbai flight delayed by six hours | Mangaluru News – Times of India

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MANGALURU: A Mangaluru-Mumbai flight was delayed by six hours after a flyer raised an alarm about a suspicious text message received on the mobile phone of a fellow passenger here on Sunday.
The passengers were asked to disembark and their luggage was thoroughly checked before the IndiGo flight was allowed to leave the airport around 5pm.
Sources said the woman passenger accidentally saw the message on the man’s phone and was shocked to see the word ‘bomber’ in it.
The man was busy texting a friend – a girl–who was to catch a flight to Bengaluru from the same airport.
Sources said the girl allegedly sent a message to the man that read, “You are a bomber.”
The man was not allowed to board the flight. Due to the chaos and questioning, the girl missed her scheduled flight.
City police commissioner N Shashi Kumar the incident was about a personal chat between two friends on WhatsApp.
Alarmed by the ‘bomber’ word, the woman passenger lost no time in alerting the cabin crew, who, in turn, brought the issue to the notice of the pilot.
Following this, the Air Traffic Controller ATC was informed and the flight that was set to take off returned to the bay.
A source told TOI that the flight was about to enter the runway when the incident took place. The man and the girl were probably friends and were seen chatting together at the airport, according to sources.
The passenger who received the message was de-boarded and the aircraft was taken to an isolation bay.
A check of the baggage of passengers was undertaken. The passengers re-boarded after following all procedures and the flight left by 5pm with 185 passengers onboard.

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