HYDERABAD: A seemingly innocent publish on X recounting a 1998 airplane hijacking in Pakistan with references to “Hyderabad airport”, “Delhi” and “Bhuj” was picked up by an AI-powered social media listening device in India and flagged by a senior vigilance specialist on Aug 14 as a “menace mail”, triggering a safety charade involving aviation officers and police.An FIR lodged at Hyderabad airport police station on Aug 15 in opposition to Pakistani social media consumer @omeremran – his X bio describes him as an aviation geek and historical past buff – invokes sections 351(4) (legal intimidation by nameless communication) and 353(2) (statements conducing to public mischief) of BNS, and 66D (dishonest by personation) of Info Expertise Act.“Might 25, 1998. A PIA Fokker F-27, Flight PK-544, lifted off from Gwadar with 33 passengers and 5 crew. Moments later, three armed males from the Baloch College students Organisation seized the plane and demanded to be flown to New Delhi,” states @omeremran’s thread on the hijacking 27 years in the past, captioned “The Hijacking that Pakistan Outsmarted”.The thread ends by explaining how the three Baloch hijackers have been arrested by commandos at Hyderabad airport in Sindh on Might 25, 1998. It mentions that the trio was tried and executed 17 years later.Unbeknownst to @omeremran and his 350-odd followers, the publish left officers in Hyderabad in a tizzy after it appeared on the Airport Predictive Operations Centre’s social media radar.Rakesh Kumar Sharma, senior specialist of safety and vigilance, reported “a menace mail was obtained…” Aviation safety officers and cops purportedly did not confirm the publish earlier than submitting the FIR, sources mentioned.