Passengers jump from plane at Australian airport in bomb hoax - media

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Passengers jump from plane at Australian airport in bomb hoax - media

REUTERS
 

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Passengers jumped from a plane at a rural Australian airport on Tuesday when a threatening note, which turned out to be a hoax, was found in the bathroom, police and media said, a day after a siege in Melbourne which police are treating as terrorism.

 

"Nothing was found, there was no actual threat to anybody, just a note, so there was nothing in it," a police spokeswoman who declined to give her name told Reuters.

 

Police said the 68-passenger turboprop plane with 42 passengers on board on a domestic flight was evacuated at the airport in Albury, in southern New South Wales, and a man was arrested.

 

Australian Associated Press quoted a passenger as saying he heard someone shout: "Leave your luggage. Get out and run, run, run." It said passengers jumped on to the tarmac.

 

"Police and emergency services attended Albury airport after receiving information a note was located in the toilet area," a New South Wales state police spokeswoman Emily Waters told Reuters.

 

"All passengers disembarked and a man was arrested within five minutes," Waters said, declining to provide further details.

She did not say what was written on the note.

 

Virgin Australia said police met the plane on its arrival "due to a security incident on board". It could not immediately confirm how many passengers were on board.

 

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said police were treating a deadly siege on Monday in the southern city of Melbourne as an "act of terrorism" after a claim by the Islamic State group that one of its fighters was the gunman responsible.

 

(Reporting by Tom Westbrook and Swati Pandey. Editing by Jane Wardell and Nick Macfie)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-06-06

[humqdpf]

A little misleading - when you say that passengers jumped from the plane, it usually means from a jet like a 737 and without a stairs. This would lead to severe injuries, such as broken bones at the very least, especially if the jet were larger. It would appear in this instance that the passengers simply exited the plane without injury as it was a small turboprop and probably had its own stairway and would have been much closer to the ground anyway.

[YetAnother]

cant make this up

[janclaes47]

56 minutes ago, humqdpf said:

A little misleading - when you say that passengers jumped from the plane

Which part of the word "plane" is it that you don't understand?

[jaiyen]

4 hours ago, humqdpf said:

A little misleading - when you say that passengers jumped from the plane, it usually means from a jet like a 737 and without a stairs. This would lead to severe injuries, such as broken bones at the very least, especially if the jet were larger. It would appear in this instance that the passengers simply exited the plane without injury as it was a small turboprop and probably had its own stairway and would have been much closer to the ground anyway.

It said they jumped from a plane. Doesnt say anything about a jet. It says it is a turboprop plane.  Try reading slowly !

[anon4546543]

This is the first comment on Thai Visa about a terrorist attack in Melbourne, Australia.

 Anyway, a known radical and known serial criminal was released from prison by a parole board.

 He then murdered a male, took a hostage before being shot by a police marksman.

 

I worked in the mining industry for most of my life. There is a legal system that made me responsible for the safety of others.

It is called "Duty of care". My issue is with the plebs on the parole board. They have no "Duty of Care"  to be responsible to the many repeat extreme offenders they unleash on the public.

 

 My issue is that if I hurt someone, I could end up in gaol. (jail for Yanks) Parole officers face no "Duty of Care" issues.

 My solution is to make parole officers share the same cell with the known extreme killers they unleash on the general public.

[balo]

Don't let the terrorists win , relax and breath.