A police team has been set up by the Kerala Government to ascertain the truth behind the hijack alarm in the Abu Dhabi-Kochi Air India flight even as a team of the DGCA officials are set to arrive in Thiruvananthapuram, to probe the case.

A team of the state police, led by Assistant Commissioner K S Vimal would also conduct an investigation to probe the pilot's charge that she had issued the hijack alert after some passengers entered the cockpit and threatened her.