An Ethiopian Airlines plane on Saturday made an emergency landing here when a mentally ill Chinese man attacked his medical attendant and other co-passengers on board and injured them.
Upon landing at the Allama Iqbal International Airport here, the crew called in officials from the Chinese Consulate and handed over the passenger and his attendant. The crew described the passenger to be “mentally deranged”. “The Boeing 777 carrying more than 300 passengers was heading to Beijing from Addis Ababa when a Chinese passenger had a brawl with more than five passengers. He and a couple of other passengers also suffered minor injuries,” an official of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) said.
He said the Chinese passenger got out of control after having a scuffle with more than five passengers, mostly Chinese. “He got violent and started punching the fellow passenger. Those tried to intervene he also lashed them,” he said. The official said as the crew failed to handle the ‘mentally deranged’ Chinese passenger, the pilot contacted the CAA authorities and requested for emergency landing. “Upon emergency landing at lahore, the Airport Security Force officials took unruly passenger into custody. A couple of passengers with minor injury were also provided with medical aid at the airport,” he said.
The official further said the Chinese Consulate officials were called in and the Chinese passenger was handed over to them for further investigation.