Qantas Link is the regional airline immensity of Qantas, yes, the airline Australian kangaroo tail, well, in 2003 he was the victim of a kidnapping attempt incredible.
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Now, occurred on May 29, 2003, it was the flight 1737 that left the Melbourne airport in the town of that name in the island continent of Australia due to Launceston Airport in the town of that name on the island of Tasmania, all within Australian territory.
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The apparatus for this short flight was a Boeing 717 200 series, the older brother as it's known DC-9 or MD currently does not have data on who were on the flight deck but if you have the names of those who staged this unexpected episode.
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Well, the machine makes it took off from Melbourne at 14:50 local time en route to Tasmania carrying 47 passengers, two pilots and 4 flight attendants, lifting routines are carried out for 10 minutes and the flight attendants and flight attendants make demonstration procedures in case of emergency, the unit finished it evens out, and then it happened.
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A passenger, David Mark Robinson (left) who was a former computer engineer he rose from his seat visibly upset and began to run in front of the apparatus for confusion of those who saw it, inopinidamente clothes pulled from a pair of spikes very sharp wood, faced the attendant Denise Hickson and stabbed her with those spikes on several occasions after that he went over to the male purser Greg Khan (left), seriously wounding him in the head and then continue towards the cabin.
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But Khan did not was rebuilt as he could despite his wounds and beating him, Robinson lost his spikes and this is achieved by Khan who took them and struck him repeatedly in the head with fists and spikes, Robinson was churning like a beast and screamed.
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About 4 passengers were at first frightened witnesses to this attack without reason, suddenly got up, had to do something, they were Domenic Bordin, Keith Charlton, Gregory Martin and Garry Stewart, did not know each other, but they knew that if the guy did not stop a tragedy that would ensue, to see how the surcharge Khan was struggling with the subject jumped him and subjected him to what they had on hand to reduced the other 2 surcharges that warn pilots and they return immediately to Melbourne to give warning of possible kidnapping attempt, airport operators receive this bold message and is available ensure that police authorities do their work and Emergency teams have to do whatever it takes.
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The plane lands and is soon surrounded by members of the
Australian Federal Police, they climb on board and found that stomach Robinson is subdued by passengers and cabin crew injured, Robinson is arrested, the stewardess is brought Hickson emergency as well as his teammate Khan to hospital and one of those brave passengers was with minor injuries after he was treated by paramedics zafarrancho airport. .
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In the revision of the personal effects of the failed police hijacker is that not only had the two skewers with which injured flight attendants, also carrying aerosol cans and lighters, perhaps trying to convert those aerosols with the lighter in makeshift
flamethrower.
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Robinson trial for the attempted hijacking of Flight 1737, and when questioned about his motives he said things that made no sense, that I wanted was to crash the plane into a national park in Tasmania called Walls Jerusalem, as Robinson had been hearing voices that told him he had to do this act to destroy the devil that said he was hiding there, he was absolutely sure I was going to avoid Armageddon.
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Robinson's defense argued that madness for avoid to go to jail, and somehow he did, the court declared him legally insane and now he is held in an institution for the mentally ill.
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While it recognized the value of purser Greg Khan (left) upon being awarded the Medal of Valor, as were the passengers grace Bordin, Charlton, Martin and Stewart to help prevent a tragedy on board, by the way if I ask the purser both Khan and the stewardess Hickson returned to work just recovered.
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regulations on the safety of Qantas Link, including enhancing access to the door of the cockpit, although it rejected the idea of \u200b\u200bmaintaining an armed marshal on board as too expensive, although implemented the revision to manually passengers before boarding to prevent future outrages.
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Sources:
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--- Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia English version.
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--- The Sydney Morning Herald.
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--- www.
theage.com.au.
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Pictures:
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Qantas Link Boeing 717-200 similar to the incident, taken from www.airliners.net
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Illustration of the court of how the hijacker Mark Robinson, taken from www.theage.com.au
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surrounded by fire trucks and police, the purser Greg Khan, taken by The Sydney Morning Herald.
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