London  - A 23-year-old Australian man was charged Monday in connection with an alleged bomb hoax which prompted the evacuation of an Emirates plane shortly after landing in London, the authorities said.

Matthew Carney was charged with communicating information believed to be false with the intention of inducing "a false belief that a thing liable to explode or ignite was present in the cargo of a plane."

Carney, who is from Melbourne, did not enter a plea when he appeared at Crawley Magistrates' Court Monday, the court said. He was remanded in custody to appear via a prison video link on March 26.

The court heard that a passenger had alleged to have found a note implying there was a suspicious device on board the Emirates flight EK011 from Dubai 10 minutes before landing.

All passengers and crew were evacuated shortly after the plane landed at London's Gatwick airport Sunday. dpa