Srinagar: Passengers en route to Srinagar from Chandigarh in IndiGo airlines, panicked after a fellow passenger shouted on board that the plane had been hijacked.

The passenger from Punjab stood up during the flight and shouted that passengers should not untie their seat belts since the flight had been hijacked.

The staff of IndiGo airline lodged a complaint against the passenger after the flight landed at Srinagar. 

According to reports, the threat seemed to be a prank and the credentials of the passenger are being ascertained.

Mid-air collision averted between two IndiGo aircraft in Bengaluru

Two IndiGo aircraft with 330 passengers on board on Tuesday averted a massive mid-air collision in Bengaluru after an automatically generated warning alerted the pilots of the planes, prompting authorities to launch a probe into the incident.

“The TCAS-Resolution Advisory system was triggered on two of our aircraft operating Coimbatore-Hyderabad and Bangalore-Cochin routes respectively on July 10. Following normal procedure this has been reported to the regulator,” the airlines said in a statement.

It was referring to the directorate general of civil aviation (DGCA).

The traffic collision avoidance system scans the airspace around a plane for other aircraft equipped with corresponding active transponders and gives pilots warning of possible collision risks.

It also imparts information about the avoidance action (resolution advisory) to maintain the desired separation between two aircraft.