Singapore_Air From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2000, 13711 posts, RR: 21 Posted (11 years 3 months 4 weeks 14 hours ago) and read 1334 times:
Straits Times:
US jetliner in emergency landing
BEIJING - An American Northwest Airlines passenger jet was forced into an emergency landing in China after a threatening note was found on board, the official
Xinhua news agency reported.
Flight NWA 087 to Beijing from Detroit made the unscheduled stop at Tianjin airport, about 160 km from Beijing, at around 7 pm local time, said the agency.
Northwest Airlines' Tokyo office reported the threatening letter to the Chinese authorities two hours earlier, at around 5 pm local time, the agency said.
Chinese police were said to have searched the plane but uncovered nothing suspicious.
No details about the note were given but an investigation is under way. --AFP
Sponsor Message: 
From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2000, 13711 posts, 
From Taiwan, joined Aug 2002, 460 posts, 
Printer friendly format 
