{"id":427686,"date":"2026-01-21T12:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/427686\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:16:08","slug":"plane-landing-aborted-after-alleged-trespassing-incident-near-runway-at-melbourne-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/427686\/","title":{"rendered":"Plane landing aborted after alleged trespassing incident near runway at Melbourne Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A pilot has been forced to abort a landing attempt at Melbourne Airport, and two take-offs were delayed, after an alleged late-night trespassing incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">A Nepalese man has been charged following the incident, which is alleged to have taken place near a live runway about 11:35pm on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">Police arrested the 25-year-old man, who was later charged with endangering the safety of aerodromes and trespassing on Commonwealth land.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;Australian Federal Police and the Melbourne Airport team responded to an unauthorised person on the airfield last night,&#8221; a Melbourne Airport spokesperson said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;The man was apprehended by the Airside Operations team and subsequently taken into custody by the Australian Federal Police.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">The spokesperson said the safety and security of passengers and staff was the airport&#8217;s top priority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">&#8220;One arriving flight was required to go-around and two others were held on the ground while Australian Federal Police and Airside Operations teams responded to the incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">An AFP spokesperson said the man was granted strict conditional bail to face the Melbourne Magistrates&#8217; Court on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph_paragraph__iYReA\">He was then taken to Northern Hospital Epping under section 232 of the Mental Health and Wellbeing Act, the AFP said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A pilot has been forced to abort a landing attempt at Melbourne Airport, and two take-offs were delayed,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427687,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[224428,29623,2025,43,66789,44,41,39,42,40,152456,2024],"class_list":["post-427686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-aborted-landing","tag-afp","tag-charges","tag-headlines","tag-melbourne-airport","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-trespass","tag-victoria-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}