Bomb scare holds up Mumbai-bound plane

A bomb scare on a Jet Airways flight from Hyderabad to Mumbai today held up departure for more than three hours.Scheduled to leave Hyderabad...

A bomb scare on a Jet Airways flight from Hyderabad to Mumbai today held up departure for more than three hours.

Scheduled to leave Hyderabad’s Begumpet airport at 8 pm, the flight (9W 456) was held up as a bomb squad and sniffer dogs scanned the aircraft. At least 77 people were on it.

DCP (North Zone) Shika Goel, who was at the spot, said the entire plane was searched but nothing was found.

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The plane took off after 11.30 pm. In Mumbai, the Jet Airways office said the departure had been rescheduled to midnight and the plane was expected to touch down in the city around 1.15 am.

Sources said someone called up the airlines’ Hyderabad front office a little before 8 pm and claimed that a bomb would go off in the Mumbai-bound aircraft. The authorities immediately told the passengers to disembark and called in the bomb squad. For the Hyderabad police, this was the third bomb scare in the day.

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