A Virgin plane was swiftly evacuated and a passenger arrested after an alarming note was discovered on the flight from Sydney to Albury.

Passengers aboard VA1174 jumped more than a metre from the plane onto the tarmac at Albury Airport on Tuesday morning as soon as the 68-seater turboprop landed about 9.30am on Tuesday.

NSW Police say emergency services were called after a note written on a sick bag was discovered in the plane's toilet by another passenger as it approached Albury.

"It was just someone being very silly," a police spokeswoman later told AAP.