News Desk
ISLAMABAD/TOKYO: A budget airliner operated by Jetstar made an emergency landing at the central Japan airport on Saturday after authorities received what appeared to be a bomb threat from an international caller.
A per public broadcaster NHK, which cited police sources,the man in Germany called Tokyo’s Narita airport at 6:20 am Japan time and claimed to have planted a bomb on the plane.
Airport spokesperson
An airport spokeswoman told CNN that the domestic flight from Narita to the city of Fukuoka in the southwest was diverted to Chubu airport. The NHK stated that all 136 passengers and six crew members got off the plane at that point.
The NHK, which showed passengers using emergency chutes to exit the plane, said that at least five of them suffered minor injuries as they did so. Pictures posted to social media show a Jetstar-operated Airbus A320 with its chutes deployed and its passengers being evacuated around it.
According to NHK, the caller threatened to explode 100 kilograms of plastic explosives if the “manager” didn’t speak with him. The caller claimed to have placed the explosives in the aircraft’s cargo hold. According to NHK, no bombs were discovered on board the aircraft. Flights at the facility have resumed after a four-hour halt, according to a spokeswoman for the Chubu airport, and the incident is being investigated.
