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Bomb threat in Australia: aircraft comes back to the Melbourne Airport

Melbourne, Australia - Perth-bound Air Mauritius flight

An Air Mauritius Airbus A-340 aircraft was forced today, 23/05/2012 to perform a quick return to the Melbourne Airport, from which it had just left, because of the suspect that a passenger had addressed to the crew a bomb threat. The Perth-bound flight took off from the Melbourne-Tullamarine hub at 2:30pm local time (4:30am GMT), and shortly after (to be more precise, at 2:38am), when the aircraft...

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Rome, Italy, 05/23/2012 12:20
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