IndiGo flight redirected after passenger says bomb aboard

After a brief lull in false alerts about bombs placed in planes, an IndiGo flight on Thursday encountered the menace once again, although in a new form.

An IndiGo flight from Nagpur to Kolkata with 187 passengers on board was forced to make an unscheduled landing at the Raipur airport on Thursday morning after one of the passengers told the crew there was a bomb on the aircraft.

“Flight 6E 812 operating from Nagpur to Kolkata, was redirected to Raipur due to a security-related alert. Upon landing, the aircraft was taken to the isolation bay and all the customers were safely disembarked,” IndiGo said. The flight, with six crew members on board, landed at the Swami Vivekananda Airport in Raipur sometime after 9 am following the passenger’s claim, a police official at Raipur said. A passenger, a male who is a resident of Nagpur, told the crew about the presence of a bomb in the flight when it was already airborne.