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 Bomb threat delays flight to Jaffna
 
 [TamilNet, December 03, 2004 16:06 GMT]
 An aircraft belonging to a private airline which was about to take off with 45 
civilian passengers to Palaly in Jaffna district Friday morning at 8.30 
a.m. from Ratmalana domestic airport was delayed for about 2 hours due to 
an anonymous telephone call that a bomb had been placed inside the craft, 
civil aviation sources said.
 
Bomb disposal squad of the Sri Lanka Air Force rushed to the site and
conducted a search of the aircraft. No 
explosives were found inside the craft, aviation sources said. The aircraft left Ratmalana airport around 10.30 a.m., sources said.
 
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