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It seemed serious enough. An Air Mauritius passenger jet withnearly 200 people on board made an emergency landing at an airportin Melbourne, Australia with a suspected bomb on board. However, without going into details, Australian police said thewhole emergency was, in fact, a misinterpretation of foreignlettering on a can of soda, the Fairfax media reported . Apparently, airline staff discovered the can of drink at the rearof the Airbus 340 and interpreted the wording on the can to say"bomb" when, in fact, it didn't. It was enough to cause the turnaround of flight MK943 to Mauritiusabout an hour after takeoff from the southern Australian city andtrigger a full-scale alarm at the airport, the Herald Sun reported. Emergency crews reportedly rushed to the aircraft as passengerswere ferried off, interviewed by police and given overnightaccommodation in Melbourne hotels. Police and security agencies then searched the plane and baggage. Conflicting reports in the Australian media, meantime, includedthat a passenger later detained had made a bomb threat, andthat the word "bomb" had been scrawled on paper attached to thesoda, sparking the emergency. However, the Australian Associated Press quoted Victorian police spokeswoman Kendra Jackson as saying: "It hasbeen determined that no offense has been detected due to an initialmisinterpretation of foreign lettering on the print of the can." Police would not specify which brand of drink was involved or whatlanguage it was in. More from GlobalPost: Southwest Airlines bomb threats being investigated by the FBI In an earlier statement, police said an Arson and Explosives Squadinvestigation found the can was not an explosive device. Baggage on board the flight was also removed and screened. Air Mauritius' Australia manager, Steven Palombo, said the directMelbourne-Mauritius flight had been rescheduled for 11:30 a.m.(AEST) Thursday. He backed the pilot's decision to return to Melbourne when the canwas discovered, telling AAP: "I think safety is number one and Ithink the captain absolutely did the right thing." Police said the captain of the aircraft acted appropriately. More from GlobalPost: Australia (still) the happiest place in the world dispatches/globalpost-blogs/weird-wide-web/air-mauritius-melbourne-emergency-landing-bomb-soda-can. The e-commerce company in China offers quality products such as Aluminium Scaffolding Manufacturer , Systems Scaffolding Manufacturer, and more. For more , please visit Scaffold Props today!
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