Flight makes emergency landing after bomb hoax

The Mumbai airport police on Saturday arrested a passenger onboard a Pune-Delhi Akasa Air flight for allegedly raising a hoax bomb threat, officials familiar with the matter said.

- Payal Gwalani

The flight carrying 185 passengers made an emergency landing at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport as per the emergency protocol and the bomb threat was found to be a hoax, they said.

The passenger was identified as 26-year-old Pallav Tyagi, a resident of Uttar Pradesh, officials added. According to officials, the flight took off from Pune at 00.07 am on Saturday. After a while, the passenger started shouting that there was a bomb on the flight, which led to panic among the passengers, a police official said.