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Police on alert after air drama

Australian Federal Police are waiting to interview a man who allegedly terrorised passengers on a Bali-bound tourist flight from Perth. Official sources say David Mann, 31, told passengers that he had explosives, and lunged past flight attendants towards the cockpit of the Garuda Indonesia flight on June 30. He yelled he was going to crash the plane and kill everyone and that he was armed with an automatic weapon. Airline handcuffs used to try and restrain him became a weapon when they broke and he used them to threaten fellow passengers, the sources said. The terrifying ordeal ended after another passenger in the business class cabin wrestled him to the ground and applied a choke hold until he passed out.Full Story