India, Nov. 12 -- A male passenger from West Bengal's Murshidabad was apprehended in connection with the hijack threat to a Kolkata-Mumbai Air India flight that triggered a security scare at the Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport in Bengal's capital city on Wednesday. The man told investigators that he made the hoax threat to avoid going abroad for work to stay with his ailing wife.

The incident involved Air India flight AI 2772, an Airbus A320 (VT-TNH), which was scheduled to depart for Mumbai on Wednesday morning. A handwritten note warning of a hijack was found in the aircraft's lavatory by the cabin crew around 10.37am. The note warned that the aircraft would be hijacked at 11.10am.

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