Bomb hoax man given 5 months in detention
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A MAN who threatened to blow up a plane after being given an “unsatisfactory” hotel room was yesterday sentenced to five months’ detention.
The man, surnamed Wang, was offered a hotel room on May 13, after his China Eastern Airlines flight from Shanghai to Fuzhou, southeast China’s Fujian Province, was canceled, the Pudong New Area People’s Court heard.
After spending the night in the room, Wang rang the airline to complain about the standard of the accommodation. During the call, he became irate and said he intended to tell the crew on his next flight — which China Eastern Airlines had arranged for him that day — that there was a bomb on the plane.
His actions would mean the flight would be “delayed by at least five hours,” prosecutors quoted him as saying.
“I’m not afraid to go to jail if it means stopping the aircraft from taking off. I’ll even blow up the jet,” he said.
Wang was arrested sometime after his outburst, while police officers carried out body checks of the passengers waiting to board the flight he had threatened to blow up.
The flight was delayed by about 50 minutes as a result of the extra security measure.
Wang was silent in court yesterday and did not contest the charges made against him.
The maximum sentence for making a hoax bomb call is five years in prison, but as Wang had a good record and had confessed to his crime, the court sentenced him to just five months in detention.
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