{"id":731051,"date":"2026-06-12T03:57:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/731051\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T03:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:57:12","slug":"man-charged-over-alleged-violence-threats-on-flight-to-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/731051\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged over alleged violence, threats on flight to Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A South <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/melbourne-ch7\" class=\"sc-iihzTf dklAlE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Melbourne<\/a> man has been charged over alleged assaults, death threats, and aggressive behaviour on board a flight from Thailand last week.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old man allegedly shouted, swore, and ignored safety instructions during the June 5 flight to Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/211b65f905c260d86e6f1fc367105db4e3c653062e7f28124d20c0aa44fce334.jpeg\"  width=\"100%\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"_0b53bae146db0b62 _7475dd3391ee1518\" style=\"--text-color:var(--color-text-secondary)\">A man has been arrested after his plane landed at Melbourne airport.\u00a0Katharina13<\/p>\n<p>Police will also allege he behaved aggressively toward crew members and fellow passengers, and that he was restrained mid-flight after barricading himself in one of the aeroplane bathrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Federal police boarded the plane when it landed in Melbourne and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/crime-5w4\" class=\"sc-iihzTf dklAlE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrested<\/a> the man.<\/p>\n<p>A number of crew members and passengers, who had suffered injuries, were treated on arrival.<\/p>\n<p>The AFP interviews crew and passengers before charging the 18-year-old with multiple offences.<\/p>\n<p>These included assaulting a crew member, assaulting a passenger, issuing death threats, and possessing stolen property.<\/p>\n<p>After appearing in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nine.com.au\/topic\/courts-hn7\" class=\"sc-iihzTf dklAlE\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">court<\/a> on June 6, the man was remanded in custody to next appear on August 28.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Melbourne man has been charged over alleged assaults, death threats, and aggressive behaviour on board a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":731052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-731051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731051","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=731051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/731052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}