Asian Defense News: An incident in an aircraft toilet caused a passenger flight in China to be aborted over the weekend.A China Southern Airlines flight had to turn around after a passenger set fire to paper in the toilet.
The plane, on a flight from Urumqi, the capital of China's restive Xinjiang region, returned to the airport when the passenger was discovered by crewmembers.
A man and a woman were arrested when the flight landed.
The government in Beijing, after having faced a serious separatist threat in the Xinjiang region, has recently stepped up identity checks at Urumqi Airport, in an attempt to avoid any extremist action.
China National News Sunday 31st January, 2010
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