Hyderabad’s Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGIA) was placed on high alert on Sunday evening in response to a threatening email received by the RGIA Airport Operations Control Centre (AOCC).
The email, received at 7.37 p.m. Sunday, claimed that a person named Thirupathi Baadineni, holding passport number R8124xx4, is an ISI Informer and intends to hijack Air India flight 951 from Hyderabad to Dubai which was scheduled to depart at 8 p.m..
“Following established protocols set by the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security (BCAS), the airport’s security team convened a Bomb Threat Assessment Committee (BTAC) to evaluate the seriousness of the threat. After due consideration of all aspects of the mail, the threat was assessed as ‘Specific’,” said BSN Reddi, Chief Security Officer of RGIA.
