MELBOURNE: Armed police stormed a Malaysia Airlines flight which was forced to return to Melbourne after a passenger tried to enter the cockpit claiming he had a bomb, officials said Thursday.
Passengers told of fearing for their lives, but Malaysian Deputy Transport Minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said a Sri Lankan national, who appeared to have been drunk, was overpowered by the plane’s crew and later arrested.
“It is not a hijack. One disruptive passenger tried to enter the plane’s cockpit,” he told AFP.
“The passenger… claimed to have a bomb. But it was not a bomb but a powerbank,” Aziz said.
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Source: Free Malaysia Today
