A stun grenade, also known as a flash grenade or flashbang, is a non-lethal explosive device used to temporarily disorient an enemy's senses especially in hostage-rescue operation. A stun grenade produces a blinding flash of light and intensely loud "bang" of greater than 170 decibels without causing permanent injury.
Following the incident, Air India has suspended the security managers of Mumbai and Hyderabad.
Earlier, Air India in a statement said the object found was a plastic wrapper and not a grenade as it was previously reported in the media.
Air India statement said: "AI 965 of October 3, 2014, operated on the sector Mumbai-Hyderabad-Jeddah. On landing at Jeddah, cabin crew found a suspicious object and informed the concerned authorities. After screening the aircraft and the object which was found to be a plastic wrapper the Jeddah airport security cleared the aircraft for further operations thereafter."
Prime Minister Narendra Modi boarding Air India One.
"A committee, under the chairmanship of the joint managing director, Air India and commissioner of security, civil aviation (COSCA) has been formed to investigate the incident. Air India would like to clear that at no point of time was the safety of the passengers or the aircraft compromised," the statement added.
Sources have indicated that this may have been a security drill to check the preparedness of aviation security agencies.
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