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Passenger Detained Over Hijack Threat To Kolkata-Mumbai Air India Flight After Handwriting Match

Passenger Detained Over Hijack Threat To Kolkata-Mumbai Air India Flight After Handwriting Match

What's behind this

A United Airlines flight traveling from Tokyo to Chicago declared a Level 3 emergency after an unruly passenger caused a disturbance. Upon landing at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, the individual was secured with flex cuffs and subsequently taken to a medical facility for assessment.

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RSS excerpt

A passenger travelling from Kolkata to Mumbai has been apprehended after a handwritten note threatening to hijack an Air India flight triggered a security alert at Kolkata's Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport on Wednesday. The passenger, a man from West Bengal's Murshidabad district…

2 of the 16 reports on this event credit a wire agency (ANI, PTI or IANS), across 2 different agencies.

Coverage arrived over 24 hours. First from The Federal, latest from The Economic Times.

High Corroboration 11 news outlets reporting

How this event was covered

First reported by The Federal at 07:14 UTC on 11 Nov.

Everything here arrived on one day, and nothing since.

Across 2 desks: india, world.

All 11 newsrooms, and who owns them

Compare all reporting outlets (11)

  2. 17 hours later
  4. 42 minutes later
  5. ABP Live ABP Group Current article

    Passenger Detained Over Hijack Threat To Kolkata-Mumbai Air India Flight After Handwriting Match

    A passenger travelling from Kolkata to Mumbai has been apprehended after a handwritten note threatening to hijack an Air India flight triggered a security alert at Kolkata's Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport on Wednesday. The passenger, a man from West Bengal's Murshidabad district…

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  6. 7 minutes later
  7. The New Indian Express Express Publications (Madurai) Ltd.

    Passenger held over hoax hijack threat to Air India flight in Kolkata

    A passenger was apprehended and handed over to airport police in connection with a hoax hijack threat to a Mumbai-bound Air India flight from Kolkata , officials said on Thursday, reported PTI. The action follows Wednesday’s incident involving flight AI 2772, which was delayed for more than seven…

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  19. The Shillong Times The Shillong Times

    Cancer patient arrested over hoax hijack threat on Air India flight at Kolkata airport

    Kolkata, Nov 12: A 56-year-old cancer patient has been arrested in connection with the hoax hijack alert at a Mumbai-bound Air India flight on November 10, following which the flight had to be taken to the isolation bay at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata, as a result…

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  20. 18 minutes later
  21. The Economic Times Bennett, Coleman & Co.

    Unruly passenger restrained with flex cuffs, hospitalized after United flight lands at O'Hare

    A United Airlines flight headed from Tokyo to Chicago encountered a troubling situation with an unruly passenger, prompting the crew to declare a Level 3 emergency. Upon arrival at O'Hare Airport, the individual was secured and taken to a medical facility for assessment. Moreover, an unrelated…

    Compare on Varta → Read at The Economic Times ↗

Who did not run this

11 newsrooms ran this event. 21 others published in India recently and did not.

See which 21 newsrooms
  • ANI ANI Media
  • DT Next Daily Thanthi Group
  • Deccan Chronicle Deccan Chronicle Holdings
  • Deccan Herald The Printers (Mysore) Pvt. Ltd.
  • Frontline The Hindu Group (Kasturi & Sons)
  • Greater Kashmir GK Communications Pvt. Ltd.
  • India Today Living Media India
  • Kashmir Life Kashmir Life
  • Mathrubhumi English Mathrubhumi Printing & Publishing Co.
  • NDTV Adani Group (AMG Media)
  • Organiser Bharatiya Prakashan (RSS)
  • Orissa Post Eastern Media Ltd (Sambad Group)
  • Rising Kashmir Rising Kashmir
  • Sabrang India Sabrang India
  • The Better India
  • The Indian Express Indian Express Group
  • The National Herald The Associated Journals Ltd.
  • The Pioneer The Pioneer
  • The Siasat Daily Siasat Daily
  • The South First The South First
  • The Times of India Bennett, Coleman & Co.

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