Passengers and crew tackled a teenage boy who allegedly tried to board a aircraft armed with a gun in Australia.
Detectives from Victoria Police have charged a 17-year-old after the incident at Avalon Airport, Melbourne’s second airport, on Thursday.
Passengers and crew on board Jetstar flight JQ610 sprung into motion when {the teenager} entered the aircraft, allegedly armed.
Based on Australian media, passengers needed to overpower the boy, who was reportedly carrying a shotgun and ammunition and was mentioned to have gained entry by means of a gap within the safety fence across the airport.
It was reported that {the teenager} had wearing a high-vis jacket, much like airport employees.
Mr Clark reportedly instructed the broadcaster he was from “a sporting family so I was quietly confident I could handle him”.
Police situated two baggage and a car that allegedly belonged to {the teenager}.
A bomb response unit was known as to the scene.
{The teenager}, from the close by metropolis of Ballarat, has now been charged with unlawfully taking management of an plane, endangering the secure operation of an plane, endangering the protection of an plane, having harmful items on an plane, making a risk to the protection of an plane, making a bomb hoax, possession of a firearm and traffic-related offences.
He’ll seem at a kids’s courtroom at a later date.
“The safety of our passengers and crew is our number one priority and we can confirm there were no reported injuries.
“We all know this is able to have been a really distressing state of affairs and we’re sincerely grateful to the purchasers who assisted our crew to soundly handle the state of affairs.”
