Bomb threat forces plane to land in China

Police detained the woman passenger after she threatened to detonate a bomb during the China United Airlines flight from Beijing to Xinjiangs capital Urumqi, Xinhua reported.It did not say whether any explosives had been discovered on the plane, which made an emergency landing at Gansus Jiayuguan Airport on Thursday evening.A woman threatened the plane staff, saying many people will die, there is TNT on the plane, Xinhua quoted the Jiayuguan head of public security Chang Shaoyuan as saying.Such incidents are rare in China, although in August 2009, a flight to Urumqi was forced to return to Afghanistan following a bomb threat, Xinhua reported earlier.No one at the Beijing offices of China United Airlines -- which was founded by the Chinese army but is now a commercial operation -- could immediately be reached for comment.