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Airport security staff against a nine-year-old child

Kolkata, India - Four hoax calls had announced bombs on flights

A child's joke caused big allarm last Sunday for the security staff at the Netaji airport in India: four calls were made in quick succession to a booking office announcing that some bombs would be placed on Monday's Guwahatibound flights. The man who called said to belong to United Liberation Front of Asom. Security was beefed up at the airport, and the flights to Guwahati were unsuccessfully checked....

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 32987
Rome, Italy, 09/04/2002 16:52
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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