Flights affected in Nepal's TIA airport due to bomb threat

March 27, 2016 19:30

Flight operations in Nepal's Tribhuvan International Airport here were affected today after airport authorities were warned of a bomb onboard a Jet Airways flight that left from New Delhi this afternoon.

An unidentified person made a call to the airport

authorities saying that a Jet Airways aircraft that took off

from New Delhi today afternoon had explosives inside it.

There was panic in the airport as soon as the news was

spread.

Shortly after the aircraft landed at the airport at

around 4:30 pm, search operations were carried out inside the

aircraft which was taken to isolation.

However, after the inspection was complete, the bomb

threat turned to be a hoax. No explosive was found inside the

aircraft.

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