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Arrest over airport hoax
A 19-YEAR-OLD Lynwood man has been arrested by Australian Federal Police for making bogus radio transmissions to pilots and air traffic control at Perth airport.
AFP agents will allege the man made a number of hoax transmissions on Monday and Tuesday this week.
He was arrested late on Thursday after a surveillance operation at a shopping centre carpark.
The man has been charged with using a transmitter in a way likely to interfere with radio communications, knowing such interference was likely to prejudice the safe operation of an aircraft, under the Radio Communications Act 1992.
Federal agents will allege some of the transmissions contained threats to the safety of aircraft, and calls impersonating pilots asked for clearances to enter controlled airspaces, for landings and to cross active runways.
Air Services Australia spokesman David Gray said commercial pilots had recognised the caller as an impostor, ignored his instructions and alerted air traffic control, which had changed frequencies.
The man will appear in Perth Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.
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Arrest over airport hoax
A 19-YEAR-OLD Lynwood man has been arrested by Australian Federal Police for making bogus radio transmissions to pilots and air traffic control at Perth airport.
AFP agents will allege the man made a number of hoax transmissions on Monday and Tuesday this week.
He was arrested late on Thursday after a surveillance operation at a shopping centre carpark.
The man has been charged with using a transmitter in a way likely to interfere with radio communications, knowing such interference was likely to prejudice the safe operation of an aircraft, under the Radio Communications Act 1992.
Federal agents will allege some of the transmissions contained threats to the safety of aircraft, and calls impersonating pilots asked for clearances to enter controlled airspaces, for landings and to cross active runways.
Air Services Australia spokesman David Gray said commercial pilots had recognised the caller as an impostor, ignored his instructions and alerted air traffic control, which had changed frequencies.
The man will appear in Perth Magistrate's Court on Tuesday.
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These people never learn, its like those dorks who think its funny to tell check in staff the have a gun in their bag. i bet it changes when the security staff are lubing up the rubber glove ready to give the hell cavity search. Dont stop till you touch the back of their teeth then throw him in the clink!!!
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Yes; well he probably came from a broken home, was abused as a child and was probably stoned out of his tiny little mind and drunk as a lord at the time that he committed the alleged offences........oh what??? You say that this was the case????
Oh well then......
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well he probably came from a broken home, was abused as a child and was probably stoned out of his tiny little mind and drunk as a lord
