Woman detained after bomb scare on plane
By Zi Chen |
October 14, 2011, Friday
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A CHINA United Airlines flight from Beijing to Urumqi was forced to land at an airport in northwest Gansu Province yesterday after a passenger threatened to blow up the aircraft.
The KN2273 flight took off at around 3pm from Beijing Nanyuan Airport, heading to Urumqi, capital of northwest Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
During the journey, the passenger handed the cabin crew a note which claimed there were explosives on the plane, the airline said.
The crew immediately contacted the nearest airport, Jiayuguan in northwest Gansu Province, and landed safely at 5:40pm.
All the passengers were evacuated while police detained the passenger, a 27-year-old woman surnamed Wang, who is originally from Chongqing City but most recently worked at a bank in Beijing.
She had a problem with her boyfriend and was heading to Xinjiang to talk to him, police said.
Chang Shouyuan, head of the Public Security Bureau of Jiayuguan City, told Xinhua news agency that the woman passenger had shouted: "I want to perish with many of you. There is TNT on the plane."
Police later dismissed the possibility that explosives were on board but said that some prohibited items had been brought onto the plane.
There were 160 passengers and 10 crew on the plane at the time.
Such incidents have been rare in recent years following an increase in security.
In March, 2008, a woman allegedly attempted to set a plane on fire during a China Southern Airlines flight from Urumqi to Beijing.
On July 5, 2009, riots in Urumqi killed at least 197 people, with more than 1,250 suspects detained.
The KN2273 flight took off at around 3pm from Beijing Nanyuan Airport, heading to Urumqi, capital of northwest Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
During the journey, the passenger handed the cabin crew a note which claimed there were explosives on the plane, the airline said.
The crew immediately contacted the nearest airport, Jiayuguan in northwest Gansu Province, and landed safely at 5:40pm.
All the passengers were evacuated while police detained the passenger, a 27-year-old woman surnamed Wang, who is originally from Chongqing City but most recently worked at a bank in Beijing.
She had a problem with her boyfriend and was heading to Xinjiang to talk to him, police said.
Chang Shouyuan, head of the Public Security Bureau of Jiayuguan City, told Xinhua news agency that the woman passenger had shouted: "I want to perish with many of you. There is TNT on the plane."
Police later dismissed the possibility that explosives were on board but said that some prohibited items had been brought onto the plane.
There were 160 passengers and 10 crew on the plane at the time.
Such incidents have been rare in recent years following an increase in security.
In March, 2008, a woman allegedly attempted to set a plane on fire during a China Southern Airlines flight from Urumqi to Beijing.
On July 5, 2009, riots in Urumqi killed at least 197 people, with more than 1,250 suspects detained.
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