Another Pax booted off a flight
Man kicked off plane for bad behaviour
December 31, 2007 03:56pm
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A PERTH man has had an unscheduled stop on an Indian Ocean island after unacceptable behaviour during a plane flight.
The 23-year-old man had been on a flight from Perth to Christmas Island when he was escorted from the plane at Cocos Island about 1am on Saturday for being drunk and allegedly smoking in the plane's toilet, an Australian Federal Police spokesman said.
Cocos Island, an Australian territory, lies about 1000km south of Sumatra in Indonesia.
"On the scheduled stop on Cocos Island, they've had him removed from the plane and that is where he has been charged with the offences," the spokesman said.
The man appeared before Cocos Island Court and was bailed to reappear there on March 12 on charges of carrying weapons, namely two box cutters, and smoking on a plane.
The weapons charges were made under the Transport Aviation Security Act.
If this was an RPT service and the pax had been through screening I would be hoping to see some screening officers swinging for letting cutting knives through!!!
Just check NJS website and the Christmas Island via Learmonth and Cocos is definately an RPT service. Well if the report is true, I'd say a screening contract is going to be up for bid soon. 
Last edited by Islander Jock; 31st Dec 2007 at 05:36.