Baku-Moscow flight delayed due to 'bomb' report

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The delay in the Baku-Moscow flight scheduled to 10.40 today was due to the information from one of the passengers about the bomb in one of the luggages aboard the plane.

According to Oxu.Az, the statement came from police officers on duty at the Heydar Aliyev International Airport.

Moldova citizen Anjela Girvik communicated this information to other passengers and airplane crew.

The passenger has already been brought to the police office at the airport and is now being interrogated.

The cargo section of the airplane is currently being examined. Each passenger presents his luggage for thorough examination by the law enforcement officers, specially trained dogs are involved to the process. 

The inspection has been completed, no threat for passengers has been detected, the airplane has already departed.