11 IndiGo flights grounded after threat call

Delhi: As many as 11 flights of IndiGo airlines were grounded across many airports in India after receiving a phone call from the US in the danger of being blow up. According to the sources, Indigo airlines answered a phone call, who identified himself as Smith from US, said that least 11 flights of IndiGo, which were ready for the take off or either departed from around 10 airports, were facing bomb threat from a woman passenger.

The caller mentioned Srinagar-Jammu-Delhi flight contained bomb, but later when the airplane was taken to an isolation bay at the Delhi airport and thoroughly searched but nothing hamfull was found.

The 11 fligts were Vadodara-Delhi (6E 591), Kochi-Delhi (516), Delhi-Srinagar (853), Delhi-Chennai (443), Ahmedabad-Kolkata (135), Delhi-Mumbai (223), Chennai-Mumbai (612), Delhi-Goa (329), Guwahati-Delhi (571), Delhi-Ahmedabad (161) and Delhi-Vadodara (734).

“The caller, who identified himself as one Smith from the US, said that a woman passenger allegedly belonging to the ISI of Pakistan was carrying a bomb and could blow up one of the aircraft,” sources said.