Forced landing in NW China after terrorist warning//Man detained after hoax grounded plane in NW Chi

Forced landing in NW China after terrorist warning//Man detained after hoax grounded plane in NW China

08:31, October 09, 2012

Officials with the local public security department handle a passenger plane forced landing incident at Gansu Zhongchuan Airport in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 8, 2012. A passenger plane made a forced landing on Monday afternoon after receiving an anonymous "terrorist threat," local security authorities confirmed. The plane landed at Gansu Zhongchuan Airport at around 5:30 p.m., according to sources with the airport and the local provincial government. All people onboard were evacuated by 5:45 p.m., the sources said. (Xinhua/Zhang Meng)

LANZHOU, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- An International passenger plane made a forced landing in northwest China's Gansu Province on Monday afternoon after receiving an anonymous terrorist threat, airline and local security sources confirmed.

China Southern Airlines sources told Xinhua that the plane, CZ680, traveling from Istanbul to Beijing via Urumqi, made a forced landing in Gansu Zhongchuan Airport in Gansu's capital of Lanzhou, hours after take-off from Urumqi, capital of northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.

The Boeing 757 was scheduled to take off from Urumqi at 2:30 p.m. and land in Beijing at 5:50 p.m., according to the flight's timetable.

Sources with the airport and the local provincial government said the plane made its forced landing in Gansu at around 5:30 p.m..

All the 196 onboard, including 186 passengers and 10 crew members, were evacuated by 5:45 p.m..

Officials with the local public security bureau are handling the incident.

All the luggage on the plane went through security check at the parking apron at Gansu Zhongchuan airport.

No other flights at Zhongchuan airport have been disrupted.

An Internet user who claimed to be one of the passengers on the plane said she was not given any explanation before or after the landing.

"Without the maps app on my mobile phone, I would not even have known where I was," said Baimifan at Sina Weibo, China's Twitter-like microblogging website.

She was identified as a designer with Puma by the website.

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08:34, October 09, 2012

Passengers board on the plane CZ680 at Gansu Zhongchuan Airport in Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, Oct. 8, 2012. The passenger plane, which made a forced landing in Lanzhou on Monday afternoon after receiving an anonymous "terrorist threat," took off at about 10:45 p.m. Monday after a security check. (Xinhua/Zhang Meng)

LANZHOU/URUMQI, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- A suspect was detained by police in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region late Monday night, hours after a plane made a forced landing because of a terrorist threat he allegedly fabricated.

The man, whose surname was given as Wang, confessed to the police that he made the fake terrorist threat that had led to the forced landing of an international passenger plane, according to sources with Xinjiang public security authorities.

Police said they are investigating Wang's motives of making up the threat.

The China Southern Airlines flight CZ680, traveling from Istanbul to Beijing via Urumqi, was grounded in the Zhongchuan Airport in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, hours after its take-off from Xinjiang's capital of Urumqi.

The Boeing 757 took off again at around 10:45 p.m. at the airport after a four-hour-long security check found no explosives or any other suspected items.

The plane was scheduled to take off from Urumqi at 2:30 p.m. and land in Beijing at 5:50 p.m., according to the flight's timetable.

It made its forced landing in Gansu at around 5:30 p.m..