The plane turned around due to a bomb threat.

A Malaysia Airlines plane was forced to return to an airport in Australia after a passenger claimed he was carrying a bomb.

A Malaysia Airlines plane. Photo: Herald Sun

Flight MH128, en route from Melbourne to Kuala Lumpur, was forced to return to the airport on the evening of May 31st after a man threatened those on board.

Malaysian Deputy Transport Minister Abdul Aziz Kaprawi said the passenger, a Sri Lankan national, appeared to be intoxicated when he attempted to enter the cockpit. He was subdued by the flight crew and subsequently arrested by airport security in Melbourne.

"It wasn't a hijacking. A disruptive passenger was trying to get into the cockpit," he said.

"This passenger claimed he was carrying a bomb, but it wasn't a bomb; it was a power bank," said Mr. Aziz.Everyone on the plane is safe."

The incident occurred several months after Canberra halted the search for the missing MH370 aircraft, carrying 239 people, following a large-scale search off the west coast of Australia that yielded no results.

MH370 disappeared in March 2014. Another Malaysia Airlines plane, MH17, crashed in July of the same year while flying over Ukraine.

According to VNE