False Alarm, Real Panic: Mumbai-Bound Air India Flight Triggers Mid-Air ‘Hijack’ Scare
It was meant to be another routine flight—Air India’s AI 2957, New Delhi to Mumbai—but the skies had other plans. At 8:40 PM on Monday, an emergency signal cut through the static, triggering an alert no air traffic controller ever wants to receive. Squawk 7500. The hijack code. With that single distress signal, the well-oiled […]