{"id":888990,"date":"2026-09-12T05:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T05:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888990\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T05:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T05:22:12","slug":"passengers-restrained-on-virgin-australia-qatar-airways-flight-over-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/888990\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers restrained on Virgin Australia Qatar Airways flight over \u2018threats\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two passengers on a flight<\/a> from Melbourne <\/a>to the Middle East made threats and had to be restrained by fellow fliers, according to reports.<\/p>\n

3AW Drive host Jacqui Felgate says the incident happened on Virgin Australia\u2019s daily VA7 Melbourne-Doha service operated by Qatar Airways.<\/p>\n

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Qatar Airways wants to double the number of its current weekly flights into Australia.\u00a0Adobe Stock<\/p>\n

It\u2019s unclear which day.<\/p>\n

She said one passenger told her they helped \u201cget the cable ties on\u201d one passenger.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen another fella and a cabin crew sat with one of them. The second guy was lying down cuffed by a cabin crew also for the flight,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Felgate said the plane was met by authorities.<\/p>\n

She said another woman told her that her 63-year-old mother was on board next to the suspects for what she said was a \u201cterrifying and disgraceful\u201d ordeal.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was texting us from the plane Wi-Fi as it was escalating,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cApparently they were headbutting and spitting on flight attendants.<\/p>\n

\u201cApparently the men were shouting that they had a gun and required six to seven men each to restrain them in the galley until they could land.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nine.com.au has contacted Qatar Airways and Virgin Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two passengers on a flight from Melbourne to the Middle East made threats and had to be restrained…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":888991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99],"class_list":["post-888990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888990","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=888990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/888991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}