Aviation security alert at Kolkata airport after hijack mail

ANI  |  Kolkata (West Bengal) [India] 

Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], Nov 14 (ANI): Security was beefed up at the here on Tuesday after the airport received a hijack mail from an unknown email address.

The received the message at 10:54 am yesterday.

of staff, and along with the aviation security were alerted following the threatening mail.

Security was beefed up at the airport and ATC was alerted to halt flight operations for a moment.

The received hijack mail from "purnadhara900@gmail.com" mail address after which necessary actions were taken.

Later, the aviation security found nothing specific, an said.

Earlier a panic situation was reported at the after Afghan Airlines' pilot mistakenly pressed the hijack button on November 10.

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First Published: Wed, November 14 2018. 18:40 IST