Australian man arrested over bomb threat on Singapore-Perth flight
A 30-year-old male Australian passenger onboard a Singapore-Perth flight has been arrested over a bomb threat, and the plane was escorted back to Changi Airport here by two air force fighter jets.
Several flights to Singapore including Singapore Airlines flight SQ331 from Paris, United Airlines flight UA29 from San Francisco and IndiGo flight 6E1013 from New Delhi were put in holding patterns over the neighbouring Riau Islands of Indonesia, according to a report by Channel News Asia.
Eight arrival and six departure flights were delayed, including one carrying National Development Minister Desmond Lee, who was flying back from Kuala Lumpur, reported The Straits Times.
