A Delhi-Pune Vistara airlines flight was delayed for around eight hours at the IGI Airport here after a bomb threat call which later turned out to be hoax, security sources and police said.
The bomb threat assessment committee declared the call, received at 7:38 am, non-specific or hoax at 2:15 pm. The airline was issued a security clearance for using the aircraft after extensive security checks, the sources said.
Flight UK971 was to depart at 8:30 am and finally left at 4.30 pm, according to police.
The sources said more than 100 passengers and five cabin crew were on board the Airbus A320 aircraft.
