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IT ALL STARTED GOING WRONG WHEN HE MISTOOK THE COCKPIT DOOR FOR THE TOILET DOOR!
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Bali hijack alert passenger ‘mistook cockpit for toilet’
DENPASAR: An Australian passenger who sparked a hijack alert on a flight to Bali has denied being drunk and claimed he banged on the door of the cockpit after mistaking it for the toilet, Indonesian police said today.
Matt Christopher Lockley also said he was in a state of depression during the Virgin Australia flight Friday to the resort island, as he was searching for his Indonesian wife with whom he had lost contact, they said.
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“According to him, he was not drunk but suffering from depression due to a family problem,” the spokesman said, adding police were waiting for alcohol test results but there was no smell of drink on his breath when he was detained.
Lockley, from the northeast Australian state of Queensland, said that he was on his way to Bali to search for his Indonesian wife, with whom he had lost contact two weeks earlier, according to the spokesman.
In his depressed state, Lockley claimed to have been “having hallucinations that somebody followed him and wanted to steal his bag”, Wiyanto said.
“According to him, he banged the cockpit door as he thought it was the toilet door.” Police said earlier that a stewardess said Lockley had asked for medicine before thumping on the cockpit door.
After this, the crew handcuffed him and put him in a seat at the back of the plane until it arrived in Bali.
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Virgin Australia plane, centre of a ‘hijack’ drama, held at Bali airport
The Virgin Australia flight is on the tarmac at Bali Airport, the Indonesian army has confirmed. Photo: Peter Rae
Virgin Australia airport manager at Ngurah Rai, Heru Sudjatmiko said a drunk passenger on flight VA41 from Brisbane to Denpasar had tried to get into the cockpit of the plane but was stopped by the crew.
The man was handcuffed and put into a rear seat of the plane.
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Drunk passenger sparks flight drama on Virgin Australia plane on way to Bali
Virgin Blue and Qantas Source: Supplied
A DRUNK Virgin Australia passenger has been arrested after causing a mid-flight emergency on a plane to Bali from Brisbane.
Sky News reports that a Virgin official has said one of the passengers was drunk and he did not attempt to hijack the plane as first thought.
The Virgin Australia flight from Brisbane was forced to land in Bali after a passenger attempted to enter the cockpit.
Bali’s police chief told local media a Virgin flight from Brisbane is currently sat on the tarmac at Denpasar Airport.
A man has reportedly been arrested after the plane landed.
Local media reports stated a passenger attempted to enter the cockpit.
The pilot then broadcast a hijack code over flight communication systems.
Virgin Australia told the Herald Sun a plane had been turned around mid-flight, but denied reports of a hijacking.
An Indonesian air force spokesman told the BBC that troops had boarded the plane.
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