'Shaking' Malaysia Airlines flight turns back to Australia

A malaysia airlines flight turned into pressured to divert to imperative australia after a technical issue left the plane "shuddering", passengers say.

Flight mh122 changed into travelling from sydney to kuala lumpur on thursday when it became again no longer far from broome, in australia's north-west.

The plane, sporting 224 humans, landed properly at alice springs airport at 17:forty eight nearby time (06:48 gmt).

Passengers said the plane had been shaking and making loud noises.

In a assertion, malaysia airlines said the aircraft changed into diverted after it skilled a "technical fault on one of the plane's engines".

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"safety turned into no longer at any time compromised," it said.

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Passenger sanjeev pandev said the plane, which was an airbus a330-three hundred, appeared to have a trouble approximately 4 hours into the flight.

"it was shaking and vibrating and the noise was getting louder and louder" he instructed the bbc.

"a few humans were praying and those had tears in their eyes. It changed into a truly terrifying moment."

He said passengers had been taken thru emergency tactics by means of personnel, some of whom appeared "nervous and terrified themselves".