Flight from Australia to Malaysia returns to Sydney, where a passenger is arrested in what police describe as an emergency incident.
to Malaysia returned on Monday to Sydney, where a passenger was arrested hours later in what police described as an emergency incident.
Malaysia Airlines flight MH122 left Sydney Airport with 199 passengers and 12 crew aboard on an eight-hour flight to Kuala Lumpur and returned more than three hours later because of a “disruptive passenger,” the airline said. Nine News reported that a passenger holding a backpack on the Airbus A330 had threatened to “blow the plane up.” Crew checked the backpack and found no explosives, it said.A 45-year-old man was arrested without incident and the rest of the passengers were released from the plane about three hours after it landed, a police statement said.
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