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Air India pilot threw note for help on tarmac: Crew members. New Delhi: The SOS sounded by an Air India pilot at the Thiruvanthapuram airport last week, prompting a hijack scare, will be investigated by three different agencies. Myself and my co- captain were separately threatened to be killed. In a letter to the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security, the crew of the flight has shared its version of events - that a group of six passengers turned violent, and assaulted ground staff as well as some in- flight staff; the pilot was not allowed to leave the cockpit or use the restroom; the Central Industrial Security Force, which guards the airport, refused to act without written communication from the pilot. The crew says that Captain Waghmare then wrote a note and threw it down to the tarmac from the cockpit window.
The drama surrounding the incident could be extended by the possibility of all three inquiries leading to different conclusions. The Kerala Chief Minister has added a new plot point by blaming Air India.
Yesterday, Oomen Chandy, who heads the state government said the airline's actions amounted to . Captain Waghmare had to divert the plane to Thiruvananthapuram because of fog. The flight landed there at 6: 4. Nearly an hour later, she sounded an emergency. The passengers and pilot offer different versions of why. But other passengers say those reports are exaggerated. They claim that after they landed in Thiruvananthapuram, they were told that the crew's shift had ended and that a replacement crew would board the plane.
This triggered worries about more delays. Passengers also say they were kept waiting on the plane without air- conditioning for several hours, while a committee of airport officials met to decide whether the hijack alert could be safely dismissed and the plane could take off.
Drunk passenger causes hijack scare in Bali. JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP).
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