XINHUA INSIGHT: BOMB HOAXES ALERT CHINA TO AVIATION THREAT
AFP/File : Laurent Fievet
Xinhua,China -- Two airline bombing threats in China within a week have stirred concern over public education and management of aviation safety.
On Sunday morning, a Chinese man whose hoax bomb warning caused the diversion of a domestic flight on Thursday was escorted by police from Guangdong to a detention center in central China's Hubei province.
Xiong Yi, a 29-year-old male resident of Shiyan City in Hubei, made an anonymous phone call to an airport in Shenzhen, Guangdong, at 10:43 p.m. on Thursday, claiming that explosives had been planted on Shenzhen Airlines Flight ZH9706, according to police.
The plane was in mid-air, bound for Shenzhen from Xiangyang in Hubei. It made an emergency landing at an airport in Wuhan at 11:24 p.m. out of concerns for passenger safety. Police conducted a thorough inspection but found no dangerous items on the aircraft or in passengers' belongings.
03/09/2012 : Hu Tao and Li Pengxiang / Xinhua News.
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