"Stewardess Calls in Bomb Threat to Get Day Off"

Sunday, October 16, 2005

Stewardess Calls in Threat to Get Day Off 
The Associated Press


COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- A SriLankan Airlines stewardess called in a bomb
threat because she wanted a day off, a newspaper reported Sunday.

Investigators traced the call and found that it was made from a mobile phone
belonging to the stewardess' boyfriend, Colombo's Sunday Times weekly
reported.

"The inquiry reveals that the stewardess had given the false alarm because
she did not want to fly that day," it said.

The stewardess was fired, it reported.
  
SriLankan Airlines spokeswoman Ruvini Jayasinghe declined to either confirm
or deny the report and referred the call to senior officials, who were not
immediately reachable.

In recent months, two bomb threats forced aircraft to return to the ground
in Sri Lanka.

On Oct. 3, a London-bound SriLankan Airlines plane returned to Colombo's
international airport after a telephone caller said there was a bomb on
board. The aircraft landed safely and no explosives were found.

On Sept. 8, one passenger was killed and 20 others were injured in a
stampede to evacuate a Saudi Air plane at the same airport after a similar
bomb threat.
  
SriLankan Airlines is 40 percent owned by Dubai-based Emirates Airlines and
60 percent by Sri Lanka's government.


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