Sydney -The Australia’s pupils overcome the 17-year-old boy armed with a shotgun and a municipality on Thursday as he tried to board a plane near Melbourne after he pulled up at the airport. The teenager entered the hole in the safety fence at the Avalon airport, then headed to a plane with about 160 passengers on board, police supervisor Victoria Michael Reid told reporters.
“When he was approaching the plane, he was mounted or climbed the front stairs to the front of the plane,” he said. “At that moment, the passengers found that the male was carrying firearms. The males were the least overpowered by three passengers.”
No one was injured and the police took the boy to custody.
Reid said the boy had a shotgun and that “there was a ammunition with a firearm.”
The plane was supposed to fly to Sydney on a flight driven by Qantas Budget offshoot Jetstar.
Police were in contact with anti -terrorism investigators, but it was too early to establish a motive, Reid said.
“There is no doubt that it would be a very scary incident for passengers,” he said. “Victoria police really praise the courage of those passengers who were able to overcome that man.”
The boy seems to have acted alone in the afternoon incident and was not known to the police.
“It is very concerned that a person can first break security, access the plane, and then potentially approach the aircraft with a firearm,” Reid said.
It was not known if he had cut a hole in the airport safety fence or already there.
A video of the Australian Channel nine showed a boy in a fluorescent green jacket – similar to those wore ground staff – a passenger and pilot nailed to the floor.
The flight attendant passes by the crowd, carrying what seems like a butt with a shotgun.
Traveler Barry Clark, a wool rurat from a rural city in Victoria, said the teenager was “dressed as a worker” or some “technician”.
He seemed to be “upset,” Clark told National aired ABC.
“Before we knew that, a gun appeared – a rifle appeared – and I worried that there would be shootings,” Clark said. “All I could do was get a gun out of the way. And then put it in holding it and threw it to the ground until the police came. I learned from the boys to be responsible and watched to others, and we were a sports family, so I was quietly confident that I could handle it.”
Another traveler, identified only as Woodrow, said ABC that he joined Clark, a pilot and another man to help hold the boy after the fight broke out.
“We all boarded, last time I sat in my chair, heard Kerfuffle and saw the pilot and the other guy struggling with these young men in a high Vis vest,” he said.
Jetstar said he was cooperating with the police and airport authorities exploring the incident.
“We know that would be a very disturbing situation,” the statement said. “We are honestly grateful to customers who helped our crew to be safely managed by the situation.”
In the United States, the Transport Safety Directorate has been in a constantly growing number of firearms at its control points at airports throughout the country in recent years.
The agency said that interfered with more than 1500 firearms At the airport points in the first quarter of 2024, an average of 16.5 firearms daily during this period. This was a slight reduction from year to year, and the agency noted that it had come in the middle of almost 8% of the rise in the total number of leaflets.
