Ex Vietnam Airlines employee arrested for bomb threats

12/7/2010
Thanh Nien News (Hanoi)

Vietnamese police on Monday arrested a former Vietnam Airlines employee who is suspected of having made bomb threats against flights in October, Vietnamnet reported.

Initial investigation showed that during Hanoi’s millennial anniversary, Nguyen Bang Viet, a former coordinator of the carrier’s flight attendants, texted a chief attendant, saying that a bomb had been planted on a flight from Hanoi to Cambodia’s Siem Reap.

This prompted Vietnam Airlines to cancel the flight, tighten security and launch a search for the bomb. Authorities never found an explosive device, according to the police.

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