Baggage from the flight being checked at Kolkata airport
The Airbus A320neo, operating as flight 6E1494, landed at Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport at 2.05 pm.
Airport officials said security personnel classified it as a specific bomb threat. Shortly after landing, cabin crew spotted the threatening message on a mirror inside an aircraft toilet. The incident also disrupted onward travel plans. A couple arriving from Phuket missed their connecting flight to Jaipur. The incident came a day after a separate bomb scare at Kolkata airport. Security personnel conducted an extensive search of the airport premises, but flight operations were not disrupted. You Can Also Check: Gold Rate in Kolkata | Silver Rate in Kolkata | Bank Holidays in Kolkata | Public Holidays in Kolkata | Kolkata AQI | Weather in Kolkata | Petrol Price in Kolkata | Diesel Price in Kolkata | CNG Price in Kolkata | LPG Price in Kolkata
They had to spend the night at a Kolkata hotel and were accommodated on another flight to Jaipur on Sunday morning. On Friday morning, a handwritten threat on a piece of tissue paper was found inside a toilet near a boarding gate.
Kolkata: A bomb threat scrawled on a washroom mirror aboard an IndiGo flight from Phuket to Kolkata left 188 passengers stranded on the airport tarmac for more than two hours on Saturday as security agencies searched the aircraft and checked every passenger’s baggage before allowing them into the terminal.