(Xinhua) -- Czech police brought charges against a Russian passenger who allegedly threatened to hijack a Russian airplane early Thursday, Prague police spokesman Ladislav Bernasek said on Friday. "The foreigner has been charged with endangering the safety of the aircraft," Bernasek said. Police has proposed to take the perpetrator, 32-year-old Yevgeni Dagayev into custody, who faces up to 15 years in prison if found guilty. The questioning started this morning, according to CTK. The Airbus 321 flying from Moscow to Geneva, with 170 passengers and eight-member crew aboard, was forced to make an emergency landing in Prague shortly before 11 a.m. (1000 GMT), as one of the passengers, Dagayev, who was allegedly under the influence of alcohol or drugs, threatened to damage the plane with a bomb explosion and demanded the plane fly to Cairo. "A drunk person was on board. He provoked a brawl with passengers, threatened to damage the plane and demanded that it change the course," Itar-Tass news agency reported.
After landing, the Czech law enforcement officers removed the suspect from the plane. None of the passengers or crew were hurt, and no bomb was found. Most of the passengers left for their original destination of Geneva late Thursday. Dogayev's relatives left for Zurich this morning.