Australian police on Tuesday charged a person after he allegedly claimed to have explosives on board a Malaysia Airlines flight from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur, forcing it to return to Sydney.
The man, 45, was charged with making a false assertion a few menace to wreck a aircraft and never complying with cabin crew’s security directions, the Australian Federal Police stated in an announcement.
The offences carry a most penalty of 10 years imprisonment and a high quality of over A$15,000 ($9,730).
Flight MH122 left Sydney on Monday afternoon for Malaysia and returned to Sydney about three hours later after the passenger “allegedly became disruptive” through the flight, police stated.
Passengers and crew had been evacuated from the aircraft as soon as it was deemed protected and the person was arrested with out incident. He is anticipated to look in court docket on Tuesday.
Police didn’t specify the nationality of the person, although they stated he’s a resident of Canberra.
Thirty-two home flights had been cancelled and different home flights delayed by as much as 90 minutes because of the incident, Sydney Airport stated. There had been no worldwide flight cancellations.
Edited By:
Vadapalli Nithin Kumar
Published On:
Aug 15, 2023