Pensioner thrown off plane for joking she 'had a bomb' in her bag

Daily Mail​

23-04-2025

This is the moment an elderly woman was thrown off of a plane in Indonesia after joking that she had a bomb in her bag just moments before takeoff.
Footage captured the moment she was removed from the plane on April 15 at Soekarno-Hatta airport in Jakarta.
The video shows how the woman steps away from her seat and grabs her belongings without causing any commotion, as she cooperates with the officers and airline staff.
She can then be seen walking down the aisle of the plane and out of the door as other passengers remained in their seats.
The woman was removed from the flight as the Batik Air flight prepared to depart, after she reportedly told a flight attendant that she had brought a bomb on board with her.
The cabin crew member immediately carried out the standard operational procedure and alerted the pilot and aviation security officers, who investigated the woman immediately.
After being thrown off the plane, she was found to not be carrying any explosives.
The incident resulted in the plane being delayed for two hours.
The aircraft was flying from the Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Jakarta, Indonesia, to Sam Ratulangi International Airport, Manado, North Sulawesi, also in Indonesia.
A spoekesperson for Batik Air said she had been banned from the airline.
He said: 'A female guest passenger who sat in seat 11E was known to deliver a statement containing a threat element, namely admitting to bringing a bomb to one of the cabin crew.
'No items in the form of bombs were found.
'Batik Air also set internal sanctions in the form of blocking (blacklist) against the person concerned.'
The incident comes just weeks after a British mother was escorted off a Ryanair flight by police when her card payment was declined after she started tucking into Pringles from the trolley.
Ann-Marie Murray, 55, was travelling back from Tenerife to Bristol Airport on March 28 when her request for crisps, water and a coke took an ugly turn.
The housing association worker was on her way back from the Canary Islands with her partner following a four-night holiday to celebrate her birthday.
But she said her trip was ruined after what she thought was a harmless decision to start eating the Pringles before her payment had gone through descended into chaos.
Ms Murray, from Gloucester, found herself at the centre of a dramatic police call-out after she was unable to pay the £7 bill as the card machine failed and she had no cash on her.
The Ryanair crew called the police and three officers swooped on the plane and bundled Ms Murray into the back of their van when the flight touched down in Bristol.
The airline said it made the decision to call the police because Ms Murray became 'disruptive', but the passenger denies this.
Ms Murray said her partner asked a flight attendant if they wanted the Pringles back but they were told 'no'.
She told The Mirror: 'I thought it was a joke when the crew said they had called the police.
'I was shocked when the police came onboard and we were asked to leave. It was so embarrassing. I had done everything I could to resolve it.'
'They then told the police I had refused to pay, but that wasn't the case. I wanted to pay, but my card didn't work and I had no cash.'