http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-01/armed-police-onboard-malaysia-airlines-flight/8577960
From: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-01/mh128-passenger-confronts-man-threatening-to-blow-plane-up/8577946
MH128 passenger confronts man 'threatening to blow plane up'
Updated
A Melbourne man has described the harrowing moment he confronted a passenger on board a Malaysia Airlines flight who threatened to "blow the f***ing plane up".
Former AFL player Andrew Leoncelli told the ABC he was sitting four rows from the front of the plane when a man ran up and tried to enter the cockpit shortly after take-off.
"He started saying, 'I need to see the pilot. I need to see the pilot'," Mr Leoncelli said.
"The staff were saying, 'Sit down. Go back to your seat. Go back to your seat.'
"Then he started going louder: 'No I need to see the pilot.' And got louder and louder and eventually they screamed for help.
"So that's when I jumped up."
Following from: https://gumshoenews.com/2017/06/02/police-response-time-on-mh128/
Police Response Time on MH128
June 2, 2017 by
By Dee McLachlan
Does this latest episode on MH128 prove that you cannot rely on the police any longer? Do we need to understand that in a terror-type situation, we need to rely on ourselves?
In the siege at the Lindt cafe, it is now confirmed that the police were waiting outside for 16 hours. They did not even act when the shot was fired by Monis (apparently a warning shot, aimed at the ceiling). It is only after more waiting that Tori was shot.
Imagine if the negotiators had said to the hostages that day, “We can only come in when he shoots someone”? The hostages might have made a plan to disable Monis — but they were relying on police to save them.
In the case of the Bourke Street massacre, undercover police cars had been following Gargarsoulas for some time without trying to block him off.
MH 128
On Wednesday night, until early Thursday morning, passengers had to wait almost 90 minutes for Victoria Police to board the aircraft. This is the timeline that has been reported (times are approximate):
11.25 pm: MH 128, with 200 aboard, takes off.
11.28 pm: A man gets out of his seat, removes an item from overhead luggage — then brandished a device, which he claims is a bomb, approaches the cockpit — threatening to blow up the flight.
Leigh Sales (7.30 Report) questioned Victoria Police Commissioner, Graham Ashton:
LEIGH SALES: Why were passengers left on the plane for 90 minutes?
GRAHAM ASHTON: Well, passengers were on the plane for about 90 minutes after the plane landed, that’s because the forward commander at the scene went to properly assess the operation in relation to how those people on the plane could be safely taken off. …it might appear 90 minutes might be a long period of time, in fact when you’re weighing up risk factors about what people are on the plane, are there other offenders on the plane, are there possibilities of other explosive devices allegedly on the plane. These are the factors that got to be considered as part of an evacuation process, it’s not just as simple as popping the doors open and getting everyone off straight away. [Why not?]
LEIGH SALES: The Victorian Opposition Leader though said that if there’s a bomb on board of the plane and the plane is full of fuel and there’s 200 people on it, then the evacuation should be done very very quickly?
GRAHAM ASHTON: Well the evacuation was done and it was done safely. We didn’t know, when we were making those assessments, that we weren’t dealing with in fact with a bomb. [Surely all the more reason to evacuate QUICKLY?]
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