An airplane passenger was detained after he falsely claimed a bomb was on a plane about to take off from an airport in Hainan province on Sunday night, according to police.

The 34-year-old suspect, surnamed Yu, claimed there was a bomb on the JD5168 flight at about 8:30 pm on Sunday. The plane had moved onto the runway and was preparing to travel from Sanya in Hainan to Guangzhou in Guangdong province, said Luo Jia, an officer at the publicity department of Sanya public security bureau.

Yu works at a company in Shenzhen, Guangdong. Five other people traveling with him were also detained by police, said Luo.