Virgin Australia said a passenger had been handcuffed by crew on the Boeing 737 after acting aggressively.
The flight from Brisbane was boarded by Indonesian troops on landing after reports that it had been hijacked.
Virgin blamed confusion around the incident on a "miscommunication" and said the passenger had been drunk.
The BBC's Karishma Vaswani in Indonesia said fears of a hijacking were caused after the pilot sent a distress signal to airport authorities.
"This is no hijacking, this is a miscommunication," Heru Sudjatmiko, a Virgin Australia official said.
"There was a drunk passenger, intoxicated and aggressively behaved. He was trying to enter the cockpit, banging the door but he did not enter the cockpit."
Crew members seized the passenger, who authorities identified as Matt Christopher, a 28-year-old from Australia...
The flight from Brisbane was boarded by Indonesian troops on landing after reports that it had been hijacked.
Virgin blamed confusion around the incident on a "miscommunication" and said the passenger had been drunk.
The BBC's Karishma Vaswani in Indonesia said fears of a hijacking were caused after the pilot sent a distress signal to airport authorities.
"This is no hijacking, this is a miscommunication," Heru Sudjatmiko, a Virgin Australia official said.
"There was a drunk passenger, intoxicated and aggressively behaved. He was trying to enter the cockpit, banging the door but he did not enter the cockpit."
Crew members seized the passenger, who authorities identified as Matt Christopher, a 28-year-old from Australia...
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