Man arrested over flight behaviour
From correspondents in Los Angeles
August 16, 2003
A NEW Zealand man was arrested after he allegedly banged on the cockpit door during a Lufthansa flight from Munich to Los Angeles.
Bojan Pavkovic, 35, appeared in federal court yesterday but his hearing was rescheduled for Tuesday.
A federal complaint alleges that while Lufthansa Flight 452 was over northern Colorado on Thursday, Pavkovic began pounding on the cockpit door, claiming he needed to speak to the pilot.
He allegedly began screaming: "We all have to die."
The captain saw Pavkovic through the door's peephole and asked other passengers to subdue him, authorities said.
Several passengers restrained Pavkovic until he was handcuffed by the flight crew. A doctor sedated him with injections of Valium, FBI spokeswoman Laura Bosley said.
He was arrested by FBI agents when the plane landed at Los Angeles International Airport.
No one was injured.
Pavkovic later told authorities that his intention had been to get to the captain to tell him that he loved his wife, authorities alleged.
He also said he feared the pilot might not be in the cockpit and he might have to fly it himself, although he is not a pilot, according to an FBI statement.
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