A Malaysia Airlines flight was forced to divert to central Australia after a technical issue left the aircraft "shuddering", passengers say. Flight MH122 was travelling from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur on Thursday when it turned back not far from Broome, in Australia's north-west. The plane, carrying 224 people, landed safely at Alice Springs Airport at 17:48 local time (06:48 GMT). A Malaysia Airlines statement said the jet had diverted for "technical reasons", but did not elaborate on them. Passenger Sanjeev Pandev said the plane appeared to have a problem about four hours into the flight.

Source: The Star January 19, 2018 02:37 UTC