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Plane passenger armed with fountain pen tries to hold attendant hostage

Air China says no passengers were injured during the flight.

Air China says no passengers were injured during the flight. Photo: AP

An Air China flight bound for Beijing has made an unscheduled landing in the central Chinese city of Zhengzhou after a passenger threatened a flight attendant with a fountain pen.

In a brief statement on its website, the Civil Aviation Administration of China said a male passenger on Air China Flight 1350, who it did not identify, attempted to use the pen to hold the flight attendant “under duress”.

Passengers and crew were unharmed, the statement said, without providing any further details.

The flight took off from Changsha, the capital of southern Hunan province, at 8.40am and was scheduled to arrive at Beijing Capital International Airport at around 11am, according to local media reports and flight tracking websites.

But it made the unscheduled landing at Zhengzhou Xinzheng International Airport, in central Henan province, at 9.58am, according to an earlier post on Air China’s official Weibo microblog.

Air China said in the post the plane made the unscheduled stop due to “public safety reasons”, and that police and civil aviation authorities were handling the situation.

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