Ahmedabad sources have stated that a passenger on a Jet Airways flight from Mumbai to Delhi has confessed to keeping a threatening note in a bathroom, which set off a hijack alert, Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju said. Yesterday morning the Jet Airways flight 9W339 took off a little before 3 am from Mumbai and was soon diverted to Ahmedabad, where it landed 45 minutes later. The airline, in a statement, said the plane was diverted after the "declaration of an emergency as per established security procedures, due to the detection of an on board security threat".
What had set off the scare was a printed letter in the bathroom in Urdu and English, which suggested that there was a bomb in the cargo of the plane. It said that the flight "is covered by hijackers and aircraft should not be land and flown straight to POK."
According to sources the pilot of the Boeing 737-900 plane reportedly
pressed the hijack button, alerting the Ahmedabad airport to a threat. After
the plane, with 122 passengers including seven crew members, landed in
Ahmedabad, everyone was screened and their bags checked. The flight took
off for Delhi six hours later.
