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August 16, 2000 

  

NEW DELHI, India (AP) -- An Air India flight from New York to Bombay was forced to make an unscheduled landing in New Delhi after a caller told Indian authorities there was a bomb on board, airline officials said.Airline officials declined to give further details, but the news agency Press Trust of India reported that police and airport security had the plane's passengers and crew leave the plane, were searching it for explosives with the help of sniffer dogs.


All the passengers and crew were safe, news reports said.


A person allegedly from a Kashmir separatist group called in the bomb threat as soon as the plane entered Indian airspace, the United News of India reported.


It wasn't immediately clear whether there was a bomb on board or how many people were on the plane. News reports said the plane had a capacity of 350 people.



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