MA plane forced to return to Melbourne after passengers tackle man in bomb threat drama

Heavily armed police have been called to a plane at Melbourne’s Tullamarine airport after a man who claimed to have a bomb tried to enter the cockpit of the Malaysia Airlines flight.

Key points:

• A Dandenong man, 25, shouted he had a bomb and tried to get into the cockpit, police say
• The plane turned back to Melbourne after at least one passenger and crew tackled him
• He was arrested by tactical police on landing and has been taken into custody
• The man had an “electronic device” that was not an explosive, police say

Flight MH128 from Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur was forced to turn back to Melbourne shortly after take-off when a 25-year-old Dandenong man tried to enter the cockpit, the airline and police said.

Witnesses described how the economy-class passenger, carrying a “strange-looking” object, wen…

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