National carrier, Air India, has rejected media reports of a an aborted hijack attempt on its London-Delhi bound flight.
The Air India and Civil Aviation Authority today rejected media reports of an aborted hijack attempt on the national carrier's London-Delhi flight.
"There is no truth in it," Civil Aviation Secretary V Somasundaram told Press Trust of India.
Earlier there were reports the crew of Air India flight AI-112 which departed from Heathrow Airport, London on March 17, had become suspicious of a passenger, who "feigned" illness. The reports further alleges that other passengers, who claimed to be doctors and offered to help the passenger, were all Pakistani nationals and insisted on meeting the captain.
The Air India too issued a statement saying rejecting the reports and "totally false" further adding that "there were no Pakistani nationals" as mentioned in these reports.
"Air India would like to clarify that the above reports are totally false. During last week one of the passenger required medical assistance on aboard a London-Delhi flight and he was assisted by a lady passenger who came forward to help him. The passenger who required medical assistance was a British passport holder and the nurse who assisted him was an Indian origin," it said.
Air India officials said that, the commander, who was informed of the developments, decided not to call for an emergency landing or divert the flight since the patient was responding to the treatment.