TOKYO - Police are investigating a Delta Air Lines flight from South Korea to Japan after a small knife was found under passenger seats, an official said Tuesday.
The Delta flight with 86 passengers and eight crew members arrived at Narita, Japan from Pusan, South Korea. Afterward, cleaners found a folding knife with a blade about 7 centimetres long under seats, a Narita airport police official said.
The police official declined to be named as he was not authorized to talk to the media.
"We are cooperating with law enforcement authorities as they work to determine the origin of this object," said Delta spokeswoman Susan Chana Elliott from the company's Atlanta headquarters.
The airline had a similar incident last week. Its flight from Tokyo to Oregon was searched upon landing after its crew found box cutter blades aboard. The blades were found in the plane's cabin while en route to Oregon.
Authorities interviewed all 154 passengers and 10 crew members on the flight.
