Through the exits that automatically opened into the chutes, the entire complement of passengers, numbering over three hundred, were evacuated within seconds, with none of them suffering even a mild scratch. all of us were thankful to the crew for having arranged our escape most efficiently, and to God for our good fortune. We were too excited and dazed to express anger when we came to know later that the threat was a hoax. But lying in bed in my hotel room, later in the day, i could not help wondering how it was possible to ward off two close calls of deaths within a period of a few hours.