so it's criminal record for a 23 year old, barred from all aviation work (all other work for that matter due to reciprocal criminal rap sheet for UK and AUS) for the rest of his life, big deportation stamp passport after jail term.
no future for him now over a practical joke. Stupid defense : tired and stressed: you call in sick for that. Oh at Qantas mention tired and get served clause 11 immediately by team managers. "Tired" and "fatigue" is a dirty word in aviation industry.
Bomb hoax flight attendant Matthew Carney jailed
From correspondents in London
AAP
May 22, 2009 07:07am
* Matthew Carney admits hoax bomb threat
* Jailed for 18 months by British court
* Lawyer says he had been tired and stressed
AN Australian flight attendant has been jailed for 18 months after placing bomb threat notes on a plane he was working on.
Matthew Carney, 23, of Melbourne, was arrested after the Emirates Boeing 777 flight landed at Gatwick airport in England amid a major security scare.
While no explosive devices were found, two notes referring to a bomb on the jumbo were discovered - one in a passenger toilet and another in Carney's luggage.
Carney pleaded guilty overnight to making a hoax threat at Lewes Crown Court in southern England, but denied a second charge of endangering the safety of an aircraft.
Handing down Carney's sentence, judge Richard Brown said the Australian had breached the trust of the plane's 164 passengers, its owner and his co-workers.
Carney's lawyer Andel Singh said he had been under great stress and was extremely tired while he was working on board the flight from Dubai in March.
"He apologises wholeheartedly and sincerely to all those individuals who were even the slightest bit inconvenienced," Mr Singh said.
Fears about a bomb being on board the plane arose when Carney found wires hanging in an economy toilet cubicle during the flight to Gatwick.
He alerted senior staff who found the wires were not connected to any electrical devices and removed them before instructing cabin crew to monitor the cubicle for any suspicious activity.
A passenger later found a note warning that "explosive material can be found in the fwd (forward) cargo department" stuck inside another toilet cubicle that Carney had restocked with toilet paper.
The note added: "We have the Taliban to thank for this. It will activate."
The passenger alerted Carney and his supervisor, who passed the note to the captain so he could warn ground staff at Gatwick.
By the time the plane landed early on a Sunday morning, police, ambulance and fire crews were on alert and guided the aircraft to an isolated secure area.
The airport was closed for 15 minutes and all passengers and crew had their bags searched.
Investigators found another note in a pocket of a pair of shorts inside Carney's suitcase which read: "Cargo contains explosives."