BA Steward Charged With Making Bomb Threat

[Seight_Returns]

BBC said:

A British Airways flight steward has been charged with making a mid-air bomb threat.

Matthew Davis, 22, was on the Tokyo to London flight where it is alleged he scrawled a message on a toilet door that caused a scare.

Davis was arrested when the Boeing 777 safely touched down at Heathrow Airport on Sunday after a 7,000-mile journey.

Mr Davis, from Crawley, West Sussex, was charged on Monday with communicating a bomb threat.

He is due to appear at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court on 28 February.

About 150 passengers were onboard the flight.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17073326

Seems that they had no trouble in immediately identifying who'd written the hoax bomb threat on the toilet door - which suggests that they've got cameras in the toilets.

I guess we shouldn't object to that given that a large proportion of the attempts to explode bombs on airliners have taken place in the aircraft toilets - but I'll remember to smile for the camera next time I'm sitting on the can on an aircraft.

Edited by Seight_Returns on Friday 17th February 12:00

[TheHeretic]

Unless he was the only one wearing that shade of lipstick?

[Simpo Two]

Seight_Returns said:

Seems that they had no trouble in immediately identifying who'd written the hoax bomb threat on the toilet door - which suggests that they've got cameras in the toilets.

Or he might have mentioned it to someone else who didn't share his sense of humour.

[911newbie]

Can you imagine how grim the job of reviewing the images from every flight would be ?
4000 turds daily I reckon...

[pushthebutton]

No cameras in the toliets I'm afraid.

I'd guess he admitted it after the security procedures began. It was probably a joke that didn't go exactly according to plan..

[dazco]

Seight_Returns said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-170733...

Seems that they had no trouble in immediately identifying who'd written the hoax bomb threat on the toilet door - which suggests that they've got cameras in the toilets.

I guess we shouldn't object to that given that a large proportion of the attempts to explode bombs on airliners have taken place in the aircraft toilets - but I'll remember to smile for the camera next time I'm sitting on the can on an aircraft.

Edited by Seight_Returns on Friday 17th February 12:00

Why would you assume there are cameras in the toilets?