Mumbai: A day after five unmanned objects were spotted over the Mumbai airport airspace on Saturday evening, intelligence sources said that they were just a bunch of balloons flown by a diamond firm during the inauguration of a cricket match at the Air India ground at Kalina.
Two people have been arrested by the airport police on charges of negligence.
A high-level probe was ordered after a Jet Airways pilot Dinesh Kumar spotted the objects. The pilot passed the information to the air traffic control. A complaint was filed with the airport police and his statement has been recorded.
The Additional Director General of the Central Industrial Security Force will be questioning the Air Traffic Control staff which was present at the time of the incident. Preliminary report suggested that the unmanned objects flew for over 6 minutes.
The Indian Army and Navy were also said to be roped in for the investigation along with Intelligence Bureau and the CISF.
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