A passenger has been arrested after a flight from Australia to Malaysia was diverted again to Sydney in what police referred to as an “emergency incident”.
The Airbus A330 aircraft returned to Sydney Airport after greater than three hours into its eight-hour journey to Kuala Lumpur attributable to a “disruptive passenger”, Malaysia Airways mentioned.
The incident involving flight MH122 triggered the cancellation of 32 home flights, with delays of as much as 90 minutes for different home journeys, Sydney Airport wrote on X (previously Twitter). No worldwide flights have been axed.
A passenger was reported to have been holding a rucksack and threatened to “blow the aircraft up”, based on Australian broadcaster 9 Information.
Footage on social media confirmed a person saying “I’m a slave of Allah,” and asking different passengers in the event that they have been additionally slaves of Allah.
“Within the curiosity of security, the commander of the flight decided to return to Sydney,” Malaysia’s nationwide provider mentioned in a press release.
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A forty five-year-old man, who has not been recognized, was arrested, and the remainder of the 199 passengers and 12 crew have been let off the jet about three hours after it landed.
“Malaysia Airways needs to thank the authorities for his or her quick response and to passengers for remaining calm and cooperative through the ordeal,” the airline mentioned.