URUMQI, China (BNO NEWS) — A spokesman for the NATO-led ISAF alliance has denied reports that a plane made an emergency landing in Afghan’s Kandahar as was reported by Chinese state media on Sunday evening.
According to the Xinhua-news agency, a plane flew into Chinese airspace and was threatened with a bomb. The report added that the plane was denied a landing in China’s Urumqi, where emergency services had responded to the airport to prepare for an emergency. The agency then reported that the plane safely landed in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Initially, the news agency said the plane was hijacked but an hour later, it retracted the report saying only: “The sources previously told Xinhua the plane was hijacked.”
A spokesman for the NATO-led ISAF alliance in Kabul, however, told BNO News that they had no reports of any incident involving a plane, adding significant doubts to the credibility of the media reports in China. “We are aware of the reports. [..] We have no evidence that this is true,” he said. “We would know immediately,” he said earlier.
The Chinese news agency has not reported the airliner, if it was a passenger plane, or how many people would have been on board.
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China's Xinjiang region
A Kam Air plane from Afghanistan, traveling in China's Xinjiang region was not hijacked and did not receive a bomb threat, according to Afghan officials. 

Earlier the Chinese news agency Xinhua reported a plane to be hijacked. Later reports then stated the plane received a bomb threat and was diverted back to Afghanistan, landing in Kandahar. The early reports say the plane was diverted back to Afghanistan after being denied an emergency landing in Ürümqi.

The plane was traveling to China and had been ordered to turn around after the proper paperwork was not in place. Subsequently it was denied a landing in Ürümqi. Upon its return, the plane landed in Kabul after it encountered high winds. It is not known how many people were on board the plane, but no injuries are reported.

A NATO official denied there was an emergency landing  due to a threat and says the Chinese media reports are untrue.

"We are aware of the reports. We have no evidence that this is true. We would know immediately," said the unnamed official.

The Xinjiang region was the scene of a violent uprising by its Uyghur population last month.