Passengers from a Qatar Airways flight to Doha en-route to London from the eastern Indian city of Kolkota had to be evacuated just before takeoff due to a bomb scare.
Flyers were offloaded after a passenger started shouting that there was a bomb in the aircraft, PTI reported, citing airport sources.
The flight with 541 passengers on board was getting ready for take-off at 3.29 AM on Tuesday when the incident happened.
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Qatar Airways crew immediately informed the airport security staff.
All the passengers were brought down from the plane and the aircraft was thoroughly searched by police with sniffer dogs but nothing was found, the sources told PTI.
The CISF then detained the passenger who had raised the alarm and questioned him while summoning his father. During interrogation, the man said that another passenger on the plane told him that there was a bomb in the plane.
When the man’s father arrived at the airport police station, he showed some medical documents which stated that his son was undergoing treatment for mental illness.
In a similar incident in February, a 59-year-old man, who was denied boarding on his Hyderabad-Chennai flight for turning up late at the airport in Hyderabad on Monday, allegedly made a hoax call to the police saying there was a bomb on the plane.
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