Air China flight diverted after passenger threatens crew with fountain pen

New Delhi, Delhi, India

In a shocking incident from China where a flight had to make an emergency landing after a passenger threatened a flight attendant not with a knife, not even with a gun but with a fountain pen!

The country's civil aviation authority on Sunday said that Air China flight 1350 made an unscheduled landing in the Zhengzhou, a central Chinese city a  passenger threatened a flight attendant with a fountain pen.

The passenger has not been identified yet.

An official statement published on the Civil Aviation Administration of China site reads, a male passenger on Air China Flight 1350, who it did not identify, attempted to use the pen to hold the flight attendant "under duress".

Without providing any further details, the statement further informs that passengers and crew were unharmed.

According to local reports, the flight was scheduled for Beijing Capital International Airport and it took off from Changsha.

Air China said in the post that the plane made the unscheduled stop due to "public safety reasons", and that police and civil aviation authorities were handling the situation.

(With inputs from news agency)