“The pistol with the suspect was a toy pistol and he had no bomb attached to his body,” said Kusum Dewan, additional commissioner of Chittagong police. With the plane close to Chittagong after leaving Dhaka, the passenger stood up from his seat and tried to go to the cockpit, according to aviation officials. He then said he had explosives and if they didn’t open the door of the cockpit he would blow up the plane, officials said. Before the commandoes moved in, all 142 passengers and most of the crew had been let off the aircraft unharmed. Air Vice Marshal Nayeem Hasan, chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority, said it was a mystery how the man had managed to board the plane.

Source: National Post February 25, 2019 13:52 UTC