Another plane grounded after 'threat'
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A Shenzhen-bound flight was forced to land in an airport in central China's Wuhan city after receiving a threatening message on Thursday evening, the company said in the early hours of Friday morning.
Flight ZH9706, from Xiangfan city in Hubei Province to Shenzhen, landed safely at Wuhan Tianhe International Airport at 11:22 p.m. , the carrier said in a special announcement via its official microblog account at Sina Weibo (e.weibo.com/shenzhenair).
The announcement did not elaborate what the message was, which was received at 10:29 p.m. when the aircraft was in the air.
Police have intervened to investigate, the company said.
This is the second similar incident in China's civil aviation industry in a week.
An Air China flight returned to the Beijing Capital International Airport after receiving a threatening message Wednesday evening.
The airport later announced that "nothing abnormal has been found after the overall inspections." The Boeing 747 flight took off again at just after midnight to take the passengers to their destination New York.
No results of the investigation have been disclosed.
(Xinhua contributed to this story)
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