An IndiGo flight from Dubai to Kozhikode made an emergency landing at the Mumbai airport on Thursday morning following alleged unruly behaviour of a passenger.
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Other passengers asked him to stop but he did not heed it and became violent, report said. The man is suspected to be a Keralite, and is being questioned by the CISF. “I can’t confirm ISIS slogans right now”, news agency ANI quoted DCP, Airport police as saying.
The person onboard the Indigo flight is alleged to have raised pro-ISIS slogans which in turn forced the pilot to divert the flight to Mumbai. “Two passengers have been detained after the airlines complained of passengers fighting on board”.
Mumbai: In a freakish incident aboard the IndiGo flight here on Thursday morning, a man was taken into custody for raising IS slogans inside the aircraft in Mumbai.
“He jumped on the forward cart, used for food and onboard merchandise and sat on it”. The crew immediately informed the Captain-in-command and the lead crew.
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“The crew politely requested the passenger to step down from the cart and he obliged”. But sources in Mumbai airport claimed that the flight got diverted to Mumbai after a passenger shouted ISIS slogans. The matter is now with the local authorities.
