A Malaysia Airways Flight from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur was pressured to return on Monday because of a “disruptive passenger” on board, in line with Channel Information Asia (CNA). Flight MH122 took off from Sydney Airport simply after 1pm and got here again about three hours later. A video of the incident has surfaced on social media that present a person sporting a backpack threatening passengers and workers. There have been 199 passengers and 12 crew members on the flight, the outlet additional stated.

“Within the curiosity of security, the commander of the flight decided to return to Sydney,” a Malaysia Airways spokesperson informed CNA.

“The disruptive passenger has now been detained by native police,” the spokesperson added.

Australian media outlet 9 Informationstated that the 45-year-old man had threatened to “blow the aircraft up”. Nonetheless, when crew members checked his backpack, they didn’t discover any explosives, the outlet added.

Australian Federal Police (AFP) described the state of affairs as an “emergency incident” on X, previously generally known as Twitter.

The AFP is responding to an emergency incident at Sydney Worldwide Airport.

An replace shall be supplied at an acceptable time.

— AFP (@AusFedPolice) August 14, 2023

Later, in an announcement, the police stated that the person was arrested and all of the passengers evacuated. In addition they stated that there was no risk to passengers or the flight.

The person was arrested with out incident and the remainder of the passengers had been launched from the aircraft about three hours after it landed, the police stated.

The airline stated passengers could be transferred to the subsequent obtainable flights.

“Malaysia Airways needs to thank the authorities for his or her rapid response and to passengers for remaining calm and cooperative in the course of the ordeal,” an airline official quoted as saying by ABC Information.

No worldwide flights had been cancelled because of the incident, it added.