VA Sydney-Albury flight bomb threat

[RooFlyer]

On-board threat, rapid evacuation of plane on landing.

UPDATED: Passengers on a Virgin flight from Sydney to Albury have decribed how they jumped from the plane onto the tarmac after being told by cabin crew to “get out and run, run, run” as soon as the plane landed.
A passenger on the 8.05am flight told AAP that passengers were urgently evacuated as soon as the plane landed at Albury Airport this morning. The doors of the plane were “ripped off” from the outside by authorities and passengers were told to leave their luggage and jump about 1.2 metres from the front exit onto the tarmac.

A man who was a passenger on the 68-seater turboprop was arrested on the tarmac over a bomb hoax that led to the flight being evacuated, and taken away by police.

The man had been travelling on the 8.05am flight from Sydney to Albury when he allegedly wrote a threat on the sick bag provided in his seat, which was discovered soon after.

The threat made claims that he had stashed a bomb on the aircraft, prompting air cabin staff to contact NSW police.

Image from the Australian on-line

 

[NZflygirl]

Another one for the no fly list please.

 

[RooFlyer]

From SMH on-line:

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.

"It wasn't a bomb threat at all. It was not terror-related. It was just something we were concerned about and we wanted to make sure it was OK."

 

[pauly7]

So - what happens to this idiot...?

 

[Happy Dude]

So what was "the word" in this case?

This happened a while ago when someone wrote BoB on a sick bag, as in Bomb on Board, but the hosties said it meant Best on Board.

 

[Melburnian1]

He appeared in Albury Local Court (equivalent to a Victorian Magistrates Court) and has been bailed to if I recall 4 July 2017.

A condition of his bail is that he not go to an airport.