Unknown man calls Vietnam Airlines, threatens to shoot down plane heading to Hanoi from Japan

A Vietnam Airlines aircraft. — VNA/VNS

HANOI (Vietnam News/Asia News Network): An anonymous man called a Vietnam Airlines branch in Japan on Wednesday (Jan 5) morning, and said that if a flight heading from Narita (Japan) to Hanoi did not turn back it would be shot down, according to the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV).

Flight VN5311/NRT-HAN departed from Narita (Japan) for Hanoi at 10:30am (local time) on Wednesday (Jan 5), with 15 crew members and 47 passengers aboard.