Bomb scare: 1Time flight delayed
2012-05-31 09:14
A mother made a hoax bomb scare because she did not
want her daughter to board a 1Time flight from Johannesburg to George,
according to a report on Thursday.
When the flight landed in George on Wednesday airline
officials searched for the bomb resulting in flight delays, The Star
reported.
Bewildered passengers were transferred from the plane to the terminal building but did not know what was going on.
The police bomb squad were sent in to look for the bomb
but nothing was found, Western Cape police spokesman Sergeant Nigel
Olifant told the newspaper.
The airlines CEO Blacky Komani told The Star that the call made to the call centre was traced back to the mother.
"She left a short message. She wanted to speak to the
manager and when the call centre agent put her through, she said: "I
just wanted to let you know there is a bomb in one of your aircraft","
Komani was quoted as saying.
1Time immediately notified its pilots and ordered that all flights on the ground be searched. Two flights were in the air.
It was not clear why the mother did not want her daughter to fly on the aircraft, the newspaper reported.
