New Delhi: In a serious safety breach, an ammunition cartridge was discovered within the pocket of an Air India flight on October 27, forcing the pilot to land the flight instantly at Delhi airport. The airline spokesperson, in a press release launched on Saturday, mentioned the flight took off from Dubai and landed at Delhi Airport. Subsequently, all of the passengers disembarked safely, the airline mentioned with out offering particulars of the incident. “A grievance was lodged with the Airport Police by Air India strictly adhering to the laid down safety protocols,” Air India added.
The most recent improvement got here amid a sequence of hoax bomb threats to the Indian airways. In 16 days, greater than 510 home and worldwide flights have obtained the threats that later turned out to be hoaxes. The threats had been issued largely via social media.
This propelled the federal government to carry an emergency assembly within the third week of October. Civil Aviation Minister Ok Rammohan Naidu mentioned that regulation enforcement companies are actively pursuing all circumstances of bomb threats in opposition to airways and the federal government is carefully monitoring the scenario.
‘Naidu chaired a gathering with the officers of the Directorate Normal of Civil Aviation (DGCA), the Bureau of Civil Aviation Safety (BCAS), the Central Industrial Safety Power (CISF), the Ministry of House Affairs and the Ministry of Civil Aviation.