A 45-year-old man has been charged by police after he allegedly told passengers on a Malaysia Airlines flight out of Sydney Airport that he was carrying a bomb.
Flight MH122 departed Sydney at 1.06pm on Monday but turned back while over the north-west of NSW after passengers reported that a man on board had become aggressive. The plane landed at 3.47pm and was stuck on the tarmac for three hours as Australian Federal Police responded.
Edo Kahn was a passenger on board the Airbus A330 and told Ben Fordham on 2GB the man began praying loudly when the flight took off before it escalated into a “pretty scary” situation.
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