Boy With Loaded Shotgun Boards Plane In Australia

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Police say a 17-year-old boy with a loaded shotgun boarded a plane in Australia before being restrained by a pilot and two passengers. Police and a passenger said the boy climbed through a hole in the airport fence and posed as a maintenance worker to board the plane Thursday. The boy was disarmed and detained before police arrived on the scene at Avalon Airport in Victoria state. Police said Friday the boy had been charged with unlawfully taking control of an aircraft, possessing a firearm and other crimes. Passenger Barry Clark, a former boxer and sheep shearer, said the boy got agitated when questioned by a flight attendant and he snuck behind the boy to push the gun away and restrain the boy.