Nashik: A Nashik-Hyderabad flight of the Alliance Air was delayed due to a bomb threat call received shortly before its take-off, which later turned out to be a hoax, police said on Sunday.
The incident took place on Saturday evening and the police later arrested the caller, who allegedly made the call after failing to get a seat on the flight, they said.
The flight was scheduled to take-off at 8.25 pm on Saturday from the airport here in Maharashtra.
About 20 minutes before the scheduled take-off, the Nashik rural police control room received a call that a bomb was planted in the plane, an official from Dindori police station said.
As a result, the passengers were deplaned.
A police team and the Bomb Detection and Disposal Squad (BDDS) rushed there and checked the plane, but no bomb or any other suspicious thing was found, the official said.
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