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Air India flight moved to isolation bay after hijack threat note
The Story in Brief
A Mumbai-bound Air India flight from Kolkata was moved to an isolation bay at Kolkata airport on Wednesday, 11 November, after a hijack threat note was found in the aircraft’s washroom shortly before its scheduled 10.20 am departure, officials said. The note warned that the plane would be hijacked at 11.10 am.
All passengers who had boarded the aircraft were deboarded and the plane was taken to an isolation bay for security checks, Kolkata airport director Vikram Singh said. Security personnel, fire brigade staff and bomb squad members were deployed to search the airport as part of standard procedures. Authorities are continuing to assess the situation, and further details are awaited.
Update, 11 November 2026: New sources from NDTV Profit, Mint, ABP Live, Siasat, and Rediff add that the threat note warned the plane would be hijacked at 11.10 am. Mint and Siasat name Kolkata airport director Vikram Singh, who said all passengers were deboarded. ABP Live reports the flight carried 147 passengers and that the message was possibly written with lipstick on a toilet mirror.
Indian Opinion Analysis
The six sources all carry the same PTI wire copy with minor local edits, producing uniform neutral-report coverage. The Economic Times and NDTV Profit lead with the threat alert and isolation-bay move, giving no passenger count, ABP Live leads with the figure of 147 passengers and the detail that the message was written on a toilet mirror, possibly with lipstick. Mint and Siasat both name the scheduled 11.10 am hijack time stated in the note, a detail the other outlets omit. Rediff reproduces the PTI text verbatim. Because every outlet relies on the same official account from Kolkata airport director Vikram Singh and an anonymous police officer, no competing framing or critical stance exists. The balanced reading is that security responded under standard procedures with a confirmed note but no indication of a credible plot. The concrete next step the sources leave open is the security agencies' ongoing assessment of the threat level.
Coverage: 5 sources, 5 neutral
Sources (5): economictimes.indiatimes.com (neutral report), ndtvprofit.com (neutral report), livemint.com (neutral report), abplive.com (neutral report), PTI (carried by siasat.com, rediff.com)
This brief was synthesised by AI from the 5 sources linked above, so one read covers every framing they carry. Methodology and corrections.
