Ahmedabad ATC denial

By Manas Dasgupta

AHMEDABAD, OCT. 4. The Ahmedabad airport authorities have denied that the Air Traffic Control (ATC) sent any message to the pilot of the Mumbai-Delhi Alliance Air flight about the alleged hijacking.

The Director of the Ahmedabad airport, Mr. R.C. Chitkara, today said the ATC had not received any such message and so, there was no question of alerting the pilot.

The transcript of all the incoming and outgoing messages would be sent to the Commissioner of Civil Aviation, Security, by tonight for perusal. He could not say how the Ahmedabad ATC's name came up in the ``drama'' but said, ``we are absolutely in the clear, no such message has gone from here.''

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