Parcel found in Indian aircraft at BIA, believed to be explosives, but turns to be gold

A parcel suspected to be explosives, found in a toilet of an Indian bound aircraft today from the Bandaranaike International Airport turned to be a gold parcel weighing two kilo grams of gold, Customs officials said.

As Flight AI-272 of Indian Airlines took off from Katunayake Airport today at 01.35 pm to the runway to depart for Chennai, India the airline staff had discovered there was an unclaimed black parcel in the rear toilet of the plane.

Accordingly, this flight did not take off and turned back from the runway at 01.40 pm.
 
After that all the passengers of this plane were taken out and the plane was taken to an isolated place and it was checked by the bomb disposal unit where it was confirmed that this parcel was not a bomb but a gold parcel.

After that, the parcel containing gold cream weighing two kilograms has been handed over to the airport customs officials for further investigation and none of the owners of this parcel has been arrested.
 
This Indian flight left Katunayake airport on at 04.43 pm for Chennai, India.
 
By T.K.G. Kapila