Man arrested after bomb threat on Malaysia Airlines flight from Sydney: ‘I’ll blow up the plane’
- Australian police arrested a 45-year-old man travelling on the flight, but said there was no threat to the community
- While still over Australia a man had become aggressive and began shouting at passengers, media reports said
Malaysia Airlines flight MH122 left Sydney Airport at 1.40pm for an eight-hour flight to Kuala Lumpur and landed back on the runway at 3.47pm, Nine News reported.
Someone purporting to be on board tweeted that a person was “threatening staff and passengers”, Nine reported. A passenger holding a backpack had threatened to “blow the plane up”. Crew had checked the backpack and found no explosives, it added.
Australian police arrested a 45-year-old man travelling on the flight, but said there was no threat to the community.
While still over Australia a man had become aggressive and began shouting at passengers, the Guardian reported, citing a man who said on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, he had been on board.
Australian Federal Police said in a statement they had responded to an “emergency incident” at the airport and said the man would be charged on Monday night, without giving details of the suspected offence.