1 Jun 2017

Bomb threat forces airliner to abort flight over Melbourne

From Morning Report, 7:10 am on 1 June 2017

Dramatic images have emerged of an incident aboard a Malaysian Airlines plane which was forced to turn back to Melbourne airport after a passenger tried to enter the cockpit. The Sydney Morning Herald's Latika Bourke said she had spoken with a passenger who described seeing the man behaving erratically and threatening to blow up the plane before he was pinned to the floor and subdued by other passengers.