China Eastern Passenger Arrested for Fake Bomb Threat

China Eastern Passenger Arrested for Fake Bomb Threat
Jul 17, 2015 By eChinacities.com

A China Eastern Nanchang to Taipei flight was turned around ten minutes after take-off today for an emergency landing after a passenger claimed to have brought a bomb on board.

The passenger was handed over to the police after the threat was verified as fake.

The flight was at 1:30 pm, MU2047 from Nanchang's Changbei Airport to Taipei.

Source: thepaper.cn

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Keywords: China bomb threat Nanchang Changbei Airport China Eastern

8 Comments

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Guest2763082

It was a fake threat. No biggie. Fake stuff happens. It's China.

Jul 20, 2015 14:55 Report Abuse

Kimmiebee

Lol

Aug 01, 2015 21:46 Report Abuse

sorrel

the individual claimed he/she had a bomb. So as this claim was false, he/she should be heavily fined. It should discourage the stupid.

Jul 19, 2015 22:07 Report Abuse

knightly

Forgot your cigarettes and whisky at the duty free? Call in a bomb threat and turn this god damn plane around...

Jul 18, 2015 10:37 Report Abuse

tsmithfi

Make them pay....

Jul 18, 2015 07:50 Report Abuse

Guest2781358

Enforce hefty fines and soon you'll see a change in behaviour

Jul 18, 2015 00:20 Report Abuse

Englteachted

To stop this from ever happening again the guilty party should compensate all of passengers 100k each. Money is all people care about.

Jul 17, 2015 20:16 Report Abuse

mikesingh

whats wrong these people ..everything is not funny and they cant make such nasty jokes .. come on

Jul 17, 2015 14:09 Report Abuse