A passenger on a Xiamen Airlines (MF) flight en route Haikou to Xiamen attempted to commit suicide in the aircraft's lavatory on Sunday night.

Crew members on the flight MF8362 from Haikou to Xiamen heard sudden loud bangs and found a male passenger bleeding heavily after he apparently tried to commit suicide inside an airplane lavatory.

The Xiamen-based carrier says in a statement that cabin crew found the 20-year-old man attempted suicide by hitting his head against the washbasin in the aircraft lavatory about 45 minutes after the plane took off from Haikou Meilan International Airport at 9:18 p.m. on Dec. 27.

The crew administered all the necessary treatment onboard before handing him off to a medical team on the ground after the plane landed.

Xiamen Airlines said the plane landed safely in Xiamen at 10:38 p.m. and the passenger, who was suffered from depression, deplaned in stable condition with the company of his family members.

Besides, the airline also denied a report that indicating the male man tried to commit suicide by plastic cutlery. "There was no plastic cutlery on flight MF8362", the airline said in the statement.