A Melbourne man has described the harrowing moment he confronted a passenger on board a Malaysia Airlines flight who threatened to “blow the f***ing plane up”.
Former AFL player Andrew Leoncelli told the ABC he was sitting four rows from the front of the plane when a man ran up and tried to enter the cockpit shortly after take-off.
Key points:
- A Dandenong man, 25, shouted he had a bomb and tried to get into the cockpit, police say
- The plane turned back to Melbourne after at least one passenger and crew tackled him
- He was arrested by tactical police on landing and has been taken into custody
- The man had an “electronic device” that was not an explosive, police say
“He started saying, ‘I need to see the pilot. I need to see the pilot’,” Mr Leoncelli said.
“The staff were saying, ‘Sit down. Go back to your seat. Go back to your seat.’
“Then he started going louder: ‘No I need to see the pilot.’ And got louder and louder and eventually they screamed for help.
“So that’s when I jumped up.”
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