Passenger charged with threatening to blow up MH122


CANBERRA: A 45-year-old man has been charged with threatening to blow up a plane during a flight from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur that had to turn back to the Australian capital.

Police arrested Canberra resident Muhammad Arif and took him from the Airbus A330 on Monday, almost three hours after Malaysia Airlines flight MH122 returned to Sydney Airport.

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