Virgin Blue: Drunk passenger attempts ‘hijack’
BALI: A passenger has been detained in Indonesia
following an apparent attempt to hijack a plane that landed at Bali airport,
reports say.
The Virgin Boeing 737 plane had flown from Brisbane in
Australia.
Police told Indonesian TV that a passenger tried to
enter the cockpit and take over the plane but had since been arrested.
An Indonesian air force spokesman told the BBC that
troops had boarded the plane.
A Virgin official was quoted by Indonesian TV as
saying the passenger had been drunk and the plane had not been hijacked.
“This is no hijacking, this is a miscommunication,”
said Heru Sudjatmiko, a Virgin Australia official in Bali. “What happened was
there was a drunk person… too much alcohol consumption caused him to act
aggressively.”
“Based on the report I received, the passenger tried
to enter the cockpit, through the cockpit door, by banging on the door but he
did not enter the cockpit at all.”
He said the individual was stopped by crew and
handcuffed and placed in a seat at the back of the plane. After landing he was
taken off the plane and put under arrest.
Virgin Blue Airlines, also known as Virgin Australia,
is the country’s second largest airline.
Started in 2000 with just two planes, within a decade
it was expanded to serve 29 cities in Australia and destinations in New Zealand
as well as Bali in Indonesian, Phuket in Thailand, Abu Dhabi in the UAE and Los
Angeles.
Based in Brisbane, it was set up Sir Richard Branson
and Brett Godfrey.
It comes after the disappearance of the Malaysia
Airlines passenger plane which is thought to have crashed into the Indian
Ocean.
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