Manodh Marks jailed over bomb threat on Malaysia Airlines flight from Melbourne

By court reporter Emma Younger

 

A man who threatened to set off a bomb onboard a flight from Melbourne while in a drug-induced psychosis has been jailed for 12 years.

 

Manodh Marks is the first person in Australia to be sentenced for the offence of attempting to take control of an aircraft.

 

The then-25-year-old forced Malaysia Airlines flight MH128 to Kuala Lumpur to turn back shortly after take-off, when he retrieved a portable speaker and battery pack from his bag and falsely claimed it was a bomb.

 

Full story: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-06-07/manodh-marks-sentenced-for-trying-to-hijack-malaysian-airlines/9842758

 

-- ABC NEWS 2018-06-07

 

The sentence should have been 12 years and immediate deporting after time served. From prison to airplane, bam, gone

16 hours ago, taipan1949 said:

The sentence should have been 12 years and immediate deporting after time served. From prison to airplane, bam, gone

Will be deported after completing sentence

18 hours ago, webfact said:

portable speaker and battery pack 

 

Now TSA will probably ban these items  for carry on.

 

Terrorists have sure changed the flavor of traveling over the last couple of decades.   Damn them!!