Kandahar (Afghanistan): An Afghan passenger flight, which was scheduled to land in China's western region of Xinjiang, was diverted to southern Afghanistan on Sunday.
Chinese media claimed the flight was diverted due to a bomb threat but Afghan authorities say it was sent back to Afghanistan because it lacked proper documents required to land and not because of a bomb or hijack threat.
China's Xinhua news agency had reported that Chinese authorities suspected the flight had been threatened by a bomb. But an air traffic official in Kabul and an airport police source in Kandahar said there was no such threat.
The plane, from Afghanistan's Kam Air airline, had departed from Kabul but landed in the southern city of Kandahar on its return because of high winds in Kabul, they said.
"It can go back to Kabul whenever it wants," the Kandahar airport police source said.
A press officer for NATO-led and U.S. forces in Kabul, Chief Petty Officer Brian Naranjo, said a plane had made a "precautionary landing" in Kandahar, but that there was no hijacking or bomb threat involved.
####China diverts Afghan flight due to lack of documents
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