Kathmandu: A Delhi-bound Jet Airways flight was on Sunday evacuated at Kathmandu's Tribhuvan International Airport after authorities received a threat about a bomb on the plane, officials said. The threat turned out to be a hoax, and the flight was scheduled to take off on Sunday night.

"We conducted a search in the plane after evacuating all the passengers," said Devendra K.C., spokesperson for the Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal. Nothing was found inside the Boeing 737 plane after a thorough search, and officials also searched the luggage of the passengers. The plane was scheduled to take off at 4.20 p.m. carrying 169 people, including crew members.