Officers and media say a business airline flight from Australia to Malaysia has returned to Sydney after an emergency incident
SYDNEY — A business airline flight from Australia to Malaysia returned to Sydney on Monday after an emergency incident, officers and media reported.
Malaysia Airways flight MH122 left Sydney Airport at 1:40 p.m. for an eight-hour flight to Kuala Lumpur and landed again on the runway at 3:47 p.m., 9 Information reported.
Somebody purporting to be on board tweeted that an individual was “threatening workers and passengers,” 9 reported.
It stated a passenger holding a backpack had threatened to “blow the airplane up.” Crew had checked the backpack and located no explosives, it added.
Australian Federal Police stated in an announcement they have been responding to an “emergency incident” on the airport, however offered no different particulars.
The airplane was parked on the top of a runway hours later with emergency autos close by, 9 reported.
Sydney Airport stated it was supporting “emergency companies within the administration of an incident.”
“The airport is operational with flights arriving and departing,” an airport assertion stated.