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One person on board the Delhi-bound Alliance Air Boeing 737 has been detained in connection with the hijack drama that took place on Wednesday night, Bombay police commissioner M N Singh said on Thursday.
Identifying the detainee as Sharma, the police chief, who was in constant touch with his Delhi counterpart, said the National Security Guard commandos, who stormed into the cockpit apprehended Sharma, were questioning him.
The trouble started when Sharma tried to enter the cockpit of the plane, Singh told reporters after a high-level meeting at the domestic terminal of Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport.
"It all happened when a passenger named Sharma tried to enter cockpit claiming to be a staff member. The crew tried to prevent him that led to confusion and the pilot pressed the emergency button presuming it was a hijack attempt," he said.
Meanwhile, the Ahmedabad Air Traffic Control flashed a message that the plane had been hijacked, Singh said.
Emphasising that the hijack drama was neither a hijacking nor a mock exercise but a 'false alarm', Singh said there was no security lapse on part of the Bombay police.
"Security in the state and specially at the airports have been put on high alert following September 11 terrorist attacks on the US," he said.
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