Police book fliers after ‘hijack drama’ in Kerala
20 Oct 2012 3:44 AM GMT
A case has been registered against six unidentified persons in connection with the hijack alarm incident involving an Air India flight at the international airport in the Kerala capital.
The police said that the case was registered based on a complaint by the Abu Dhabi-Kochi bound flight pilot Rupali Waghmare, who sent the hijack alert in panic after agitated passengers allegedly stormed the cockpit.
In her complaint, which was sent to the state director general of police [DGP], the pilot claimed she was threatened, manhandled and restrained from moving out for more than five hours, the police said tonight.
The case was registered even as the Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy ordered a probe into the incident. The complaints of passengers against the pilot and also her charges against passengers would be looked into, he said.
Chandy, who had described the incident as a spontaneous reaction, said that he had instructed the DGP K S Balasubramaniam to investigate the matter.
Around 200 passengers of an Air India Kochi bound flight from Abu Dhabi protested and some allegedly tried to enter the cockpit after the Kochi bound flight was diverted here due to bad visibility.
Six passengers were detained and questioned by Central Industrial Security Force personnel when the plane landed at Kochi after about a nine-hour delay and let off.
The police said that the case was registered based on a complaint by the Abu Dhabi-Kochi bound flight pilot Rupali Waghmare, who sent the hijack alert in panic after agitated passengers allegedly stormed the cockpit.
In her complaint, which was sent to the state director general of police [DGP], the pilot claimed she was threatened, manhandled and restrained from moving out for more than five hours, the police said tonight.
The case was registered even as the Kerala chief minister Oommen Chandy ordered a probe into the incident. The complaints of passengers against the pilot and also her charges against passengers would be looked into, he said.
Chandy, who had described the incident as a spontaneous reaction, said that he had instructed the DGP K S Balasubramaniam to investigate the matter.
Around 200 passengers of an Air India Kochi bound flight from Abu Dhabi protested and some allegedly tried to enter the cockpit after the Kochi bound flight was diverted here due to bad visibility.
Six passengers were detained and questioned by Central Industrial Security Force personnel when the plane landed at Kochi after about a nine-hour delay and let off.
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