: *United Airlines plane forced to land due to passenger's
faeces*
A plane carrying 245 passengers from Chicago to Hong Kong was
diverted to Alaska after two of the aircraft's toilets were vandalised with
excrement, officials said. The United Airlines flight was forced to make an
unscheduled landing in Anchorage on Thursday evening due to a "passenger
smearing faeces everywhere".
Police said the man, a US resident of Vietnamese origin, made no
threats. It is not clear what led to the episode taking place. "We
received a report of a passenger who had messed up the bathrooms with his own
faeces," Anchorage Airport police spokesman Lt Joe Gamache said. The
passenger, a 22-year-old whose name has not been released, was co-operative and
faced "no appropriate charges for anything criminal", Lt Gamache
added.
The man, who made no threats and did not try to interfere with
the flight crew, was handcuffed by police at Anchorage International Airport
and escorted off the plane. Police told Anchorage TV station KTUU that he was
taken to a hospital for a mental health assessment after being interviewed
through a translator.
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