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Police have defended the time it took to evacuate an airliner bound for Malaysia that returned to Melbourne in the early hours on Thursday after a bomb threat.

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By Greg Dyett, Lê Tâm

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Police have defended the time it took to evacuate an airliner bound for Malaysia that returned to Melbourne in the early hours on Thursday after a bomb threat.

The incident occurred less than 30 minutes after the Malaysia Airlines plane took off on a late-night flight to Kuala Lumpur.

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