Overview

• On June 4, flight 6E921 from Ahmedabad landed in Patna with 192 passengers when station manager Shalini received a WhatsApp message showing a napkin labeled “bomb.”
• Security personnel moved the aircraft to an isolation bay and evacuated all passengers within 40 minutes of landing.
• Central Industrial Security Force officers aided by sniffer dogs and metal detectors conducted an hour-long sweep that detected no explosives.
• Officials later confirmed the warning was a hoax, following a similar false alarm at Jammu Railway Station two days earlier.
• Authorities have launched an investigation to trace the hoax’s origin and are reviewing security protocols for domestic flights.