New Delhi: A passenger on an Air India flight claiming to be an officer from one of the three Services threatened that he had planted a bomb in the airport after his request to suddenly disembark at Jodhpur was turned down by both airline staff and the airport security personnel at the Jodhpur airport.
The passenger had purchased a ticket for Jaipur. When the aircraft (flight AI-475) with 175 passengers on board landed at Jodhpur, the passenger demanded that he wanted to disembark at Jodhpur instead of Jaipur but his request was turned down by AI crew.
According to an Air India official, the man then demanded he be allowed to meet security personnel at the airport but they too turned down the request. Having failed to convince anybody the passenger apparently had told the authorities that he planted a bomb in the airport. After a thorough search the claim was declared a hoax and the alleged offender was handed over to authorities.
