TAIPEI – Air traffic regulators reopened the south runway at Taiwan’s main international airport at 2.30pm on Wednesday, three hours after it was shut due to a bomb scare on an Air China flight from Beijing.

Taoyuan International Airport had shut its south runway after receiving information about suspected explosives on Flight CA185.

The airport authorities reported it to local aviation police.

The plane was parked in a remote holding bay while the police sent two X-ray cars to investigate the threat. 

Taiwan’s Aviation Police Bureau received a report at around 11.30am that the flight had explosives on board, Taiwanese media reported.

The flight left Beijing at around 8.25am on Wednesday. Just after 12.40pm, all 103 passengers and 15 crew members disembarked the plane, and the all-clear was given at 1.30pm, police said.

Other flights were not affected, with planes taking off and landing on a separate runway, the airport said on its website. BLOOMBERG