Guwahati, March 10 -- An Air India flight AI 119 travelling from Mumbai to New York made an emergency return to Mumbai on Monday morning after the crew discovered a bomb threat in mid-flight and landed safely at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport at 10.25 am.

Air India flight AI 119, with 303 passengers and 19 crew members on board returned eight hours after take-off. The boeing 777 aircraft was flying over Azerbaijan when it changed the course after the crew discovered a threat.

Following its landing, authorities carried out bomb-detection procedures. Later, authority found the threat alert to be a false alarm.

Air India said that the flight took off from Mumbai around 2 in the morning and returned to Mumbai ar...