Police defend delay in boarding bomb-threat plane

Scottish man Robert Macdonald, one of the passengers credited with intervening

Scottish man Robert Macdonald, one of the passengers credited with intervening Source: AAP

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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