Indian actor Gul Panag's husband was member of the crew of one of the two Jet Airways flights which landed at the Brussels airport from India just a little before the twin bomb blasts rocked the Belgian capital.
The passengers and crew are now safe and secure, she said.
HE is part of the crew . Will pass on updates as I receive them. Crew and passengers safe . @jetairways #Brussels
— Gul Panag (@GulPanag) March 22, 2016
Gul's first Twitter update on the news revealed that the Jet Airways plane had landed at the Brussels airport, and later she shared that her husband, Captain G.S. Attari, was on board.
3. Request you to please not call me constantly, I need to keep my phone line free incase HE calls. Thanks
— Gul Panag (@GulPanag) March 22, 2016
https://t.co/RQk4Ha7oBi
In a message to IANS, Gul said: "Flushing operation is still on. They are still finding bombs. His (my husband's) crew and passengers are safe. All the updates I got from him, I have shared on Twitter, so that the family of crew and passengers also know."
Dear friends in the media reading my twitter feed and calling,
— Gul Panag (@GulPanag) March 22, 2016
1.No, I'm not in #Brussels
2. I have no 'reaction' to give
"They all were in the aircraft for over two hours, and now have been taken to a secure holding area. He is giving me an update every hour."
As promised, Gul had tweeted when the passengers and crew of the Jet Airways flight, which took off from Delhi, had deplaned.
The terror attack happened at the airport and Metro in Belgium.
Singer Abhijeet Bhattacharya’s wife and son evacuated to safe zone
Abhijeet shared that his wife and son have been evacuated and are in a safe zone now. He wrote, “#Brussels jst spoke to my wife n son at #BrusselsAirport..They r bn evacuated to a safe zone God is great.. Thx @jetairways.”
When Jet Airways wrote that they are making constant efforts in ensuring that their guests and staff are safe, Abhijeet thanked them and wrote that he is in constant touch with them.
Abhijeet Bhattacharya tweeted:
#Brussels jst spoke to my wife n son at #BrusselsAirport..They r bn evacuated to a safe zone God is great.. Thx @jetairways
— abhijeet (@abhijeetsinger) March 22, 2016
