Man threatens to shoot down Vietnam Airlines aircraft over Tokyo Bay

The incident occurred about 11.10 a.m., when a Boeing 787 with 47 passengers and a 15-member crew was travelling from Narita (Japan) to Hanoi (Vietnam).

Forty minutes after

, the Vietnam Airlines headquarters in Japan got a phone call from a man the plane over Tokyo Bay if it did not return to Narita. The man claimed to be from the United States yet spoke Japanese.

When the

(CAAV) learned about the incident, it promptly notified Nguyen Van The and Pham Binh Minh. Later, the CAAV instructed Vietnam Airlines to to and land at Fukuoka Airport (Japan).

At 13:02 (local time), the jet successfully landed at Fukuoka Airport for

. After two and a half hours of examination, Japanese officials discovered nothing suspicious. Vietnam Airlines was allowed to continue its flight to Hanoi. At 18:12, the plane at Hanoi's Noi Bai International Airport (Vietnam time).

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