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Hostage drama on Beijing-bound flight forces emergency landing
Published on: 2018-04-18
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051A domestic Air China flight to Beijing was diverted for an emergency landing on Sunday morning after a male passenger held a flight attendant hostage with a fountain pen, Chinese aviation authorities said.
 

Flight CA1350 from Changsha, Hunan province, landed at Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport in Henan province, the Civil Aviation Administration said in a statement.

052“By 13:17 the incident had been settled successfully. The passengers and crew are all safe,” the statement said. “An investigation showed the man used a fountain pen [to take the hostage].”
 

Henan police said a 41-year-old man from Anhua, Hunan province, who experienced a “mental illness” during the flight, had been taken into custody over the incident.
 

All passengers on board the flight were safely evacuated through the rear exit by 10:50am, and the man was subdued after 1pm.

053The flight took off from Changsha at 8:35am and landed in Zhengzhou at 9:58am.
 

After the landing, all passengers were evacuated to the terminal’s hall, according to the Henan Province Airport Group, the airport’s owner and operator. “Presently the airport is operating as normal,” the group said in a statement.

054The aircraft was also intact and another plane was sent to Zhengzhou to take the passengers to Beijing, Air China said on its social media account.
 

The airline said in an earlier post that the plane made the unscheduled stop due to “public safety reasons”, and that police and civil aviation authorities were handling the situation.

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