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The communication was, however, safely restored within a few minutes. A reported communication failure on board a Jet Airways aircraft while flying in the German skies gave a scare to German

authorities who feared a hijack and scrambled their fighter jets. The incident happened three days back when the Mumbai-London flight 9W-118, with 330 passengers and 15 crew members, lost

contact with the Air Traffic Control (ATC) for a "brief period" while flying over Cologne. The pilots of the Boeing-777 lost contact due to a reported communication failure, the

Jet Airways said in a statement in Mumbai on Sunday. However, the communication was safely restored within minutes and the flight landed at its destination without any hitch, the statement

said. The airline has de-rostered the pilots of the flight pending investigation and reported the matter to the civil aviation regulator, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA).

"Contact between Jet Airways flight 9W-118 from Mumbai to London Heathrow, of February 16, 2017, and the local ATC, was briefly lost while flying over German airspace," the airline

statement said. "As a precaution, the German Air Force (GAF) scrambled its fighter jets to ensure the safety of the flight and its passengers," it said. The communication was,

however, safely restored within a few minutes, the statement said. > German Air Force intercepting a Jet Airways B777 bound for London > (from Mumbai after it failed to respond on the 

appropriate ATC > frequencies pic.twitter.com/kKnVxrI24i > — Airplane Pictures ✈ (@iLove_Aviation) February 19, 2017