Conflicting reports on incident involving a plane in Chinese airspace
August 10th, 2009 - 12:39 am ICT by admin ( Leave a comment )URUMQI, China (BNO NEWS) — Chinese state media reports that an Afghan plane carrying an unknown number of people has safely landed in Afghanistan after it was denied a landing in China´s Urumqi following a bomb threat on Sunday evening.
The news agency said aviation authorities denied the plane, bound for Urumqi, to land at the airport but says that armed police and other emergency vehicles rushed to the airport to prepare for an emergency response. The agency initially reported that the plane had been hijacked.
It was not immediately clear if the plane was ever hijacked at any point.
A spokesman for the NATO-led ISAF alliance in Kabul told BNO News they had no reports of an incident involving a plane, adding more doubts to the reports from state media. “We would know immediately,” he said.
Further details are not yet available.
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