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Even as the crisis management group of the civil aviation ministry is wrestling with the hijack of Alliance Air Flight CD-7444, passengers on board the plane do not even know that the plane has been hijacked.
A S Jain, a passenger on the plane who spoke to his brother at Delhi airport on his cell phone, said the announcement on board was that the plane had a technical fault and once it had been rectified, the passengers would be allowed to disembark.
Jain said he had noticed nothing untoward on the flight and there was no outward sign in the passenger area that the plane had been hijacked.
In sharp contrast, Civil Aviation Secretary A H Jung had told STAR News channel that the pilots had secured the cockpit and locked themselves in, implying that the hijackers were outside, in the passenger area.
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