'Bomb on plane' hoax call delays Mumbai-Bengaluru flight by seven hours

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MUMBAI: The airport police are looking for an individual who made a. bomb hoax call. at an airline's call centre recently, delaying its flight by nearly seven hours and wasting resources of security agencies...

On Saturday, the call centre of Akasa Air located at Malad received a phone call at 6.36 pm..

The message was immediately relayed by the call centre staff to the security staff of Akasa Air..

The security staff found out that the flight was preparing for take-off from Chhatrapati Shivaji International airport (terminal 1) with 167 passengers on board the aircraft...

The security staff immediately alerted the flight captain about the call received at the call centre..

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