Hoax call, stating a bomb has been kept in a Jet Airways flight, landing at Jolly Grant Airport from New Delhi at around 3.15 pm on Tuesday, has sent panic among the Airport authorities, Jet airways officials, police officers and passengers.
Arun Kumar, sub-inspector, Jolly Grant police post, said that police had acted swiftly and passengers of Jet airways flight had de-boarded at a place other than the runway. It is learnt that the Jet Airways officials had received the phone call from Chandigarh. Dog squad and bomb disposal squad were pressed into service by police on receiving the information. The squads searched the plane and nothing suspicious was found. However, landing and departure of the lanes were adversely affected following the incident.