Passengers offloaded after man shouts bomb in London-bound Qatar Airways flight

In a mid-air bomb scare, passengers on board a plane were brought down at the NSC Bose International Airport here after a man started shouting before take-off that there was a bomb in the aircraft, airport sources said on Tuesday. 

The Qatar Airways flight to London from here via Doha with 541 passengers on board was getting ready for take-off at 3.29 am on Tuesday when one passenger started shouting that there was a bomb in the plane, the sources said. 

The airline crew immediately informed the CISF. All the passengers were brought down from the plane and the aircraft was thoroughly searched by police with sniffer dogs but nothing was found, according to the reports. 

The CISF detained the passenger who shouted bomb in the aircraft and questioned him. During interrogation, the

The father of the detained man was called to the Airport police station. The father showed some medical documents to police which stated that his son was undergoing treatment for mental illness.