A 17-year-old boy has been charged after he allegedly pulled a shotgun on a Jetstar flight while pretending to be a maintenance worker. At least three passengers in the plane's front row tackled the alleged gunman to the ground after they spotted the shotgun in his hand, police said. Police said the teenager, from Ballarat in Victoria, was allegedly acting alone.
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00:00Let him go. Girls it's impossible. A 17-year-old boy has been charged after he allegedly pulled
00:08a shotgun on a Jetstar flight while pretending to be a maintenance worker. Police were called
00:12to Avalon Airport between Melbourne and Geelong at 2.50pm on March the 6th with reports that a
00:19person with a firearm attempted to board a commercial flight after breaching a security fence.
00:24A source told ACM that a person claimed to be doing maintenance before he pointed a gun at
00:30passengers. At least three passengers in the plane's front row tackled the alleged gunman
00:34to the ground after they spotted the shotgun in his hand. Police said the teenager from Ballarat
00:39in Victoria was allegedly acting alone.
00:54Just further back there please.