BALTIMORE: A police report says four passengers were removed from a flight at Baltimore’s international airport after a fellow passenger said she saw one of them receive a text with the word “dynamite”.

Maryland Transportation Authority Police spokesman Sgt Jonathan Green said Wednesday that no such message was found on the passenger’s phone.

The report says the female passenger became alarmed when a male passenger made several phone calls in a language other than English while Spirit Airlines Flight 969 to Chicago was taxiing to the runway on Nov. 17.

The female passenger said she saw the male passenger get a text message that read “BLR Dynamite.” BLR is the airport code for Bengaluru International Airport in Bangalore, India.

The plane was brought back to the gate. The four passengers were questioned and released without charges. –AP/nst