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A passenger on a flight from Colombia used an emergency exit and walked out onto the wing of the plane at the Miami International Airport on Wednesday evening, Miami-Dade Police said. The plane had just landed and was getting into position at the gate, according to police. After walking onto the wing, the man jumped into a restricted area and claimed he was in danger, according to a Miami-Dade police news release. There, the passenger was confronted by a security officer and asked for help, continuing to claim he was in danger. The passenger was detained by US Customs and Border Protection, police said. The passenger felt ill while in custody and was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital to be cleared medically, "where he attempted to escape by physically resisting officers," the release said.<br/>The man is a US citizen, and the flight was American Airlines 920, according to CNN affiliate WPLG, which cited police.<br/>

American Airlines is set to reinstate its Los Angeles-Sydney route from early January 2022 after pausing it at the end of August. The AA73 flight departing from Los Angeles International Airport will return to Sydney on 6 January, operated by a Boeing 787-9 aircraft. Sydney’s return flight to Los Angeles will operate on flight AA72 on 6 January. In late June, New South Wales reported its first cluster of COVID-19 cases in months as the Delta strain began to surge. The high cases plunged the state into lockdown rapidly, with Victoria following close behind. Due to the high infection rates, the Australian federal government halved the number of international arrivals it accepted from 14 July. Australia then began to accept just over 3,000 people a week, which led to numerous US airlines pausing their Sydney routes – a major blow to Australian tourism.<br/>