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(LIP-jl) -- What started out as a joke between two United States nationals and two Israeli citizens caused the suspension of a flight at Peru's Jorge Chavez International Airport, located in Lima, Peru.

According to a report from Peru's La Primera newspaper, a female passenger panicked when she overheard 4 men talking about bombs. She alerted the plane's personnel who then decided to delay the take off of flight 132, from Taca Airlines.

While agents from Peru's Bomb and Explosives Detonation Unit searched the plane thoroughly, the 4 men insisted that they were only joking and that the woman was overreacting.

The four men, identified as Mulayof Doller (23) and Onri Afnin (22) from Israel, and Bazant Patrick Fearnen (23) and John Thomas Lucket (23) from the United States, were taken to the Jorge Chavez Airport Police Station for interrogation.

After contacting authorities from their respective embassies, the four men were allowed to travel after American and Israeli officials assured the men would cause no further problems.

Taca Airlines flight 132 was heading to Bogota, Colombia.