BA Steward Arrested Over Mid-Air Bomb Threat
A scrawled bomb threat message on toilet door during flight from Tokyo led to Air Steward arrest.
Courtesy of - Guardian Unlimited
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 with 150 passengers on board when it is alleged he scrawled a message on a toilet door that caused the scare, police said on Friday, February 10, 2012.
Davis was arrested when the Boeing 777 safely touched down at Heathrow airport on Sunday after its 7,000-mile journey.
The Metropolitan police said Davis, from Crawley, West Sussex, was charged with communicating a bomb threat.
He is due to appear at Uxbridge magistrates' court on February 28, 2102.
Davis has been suspended from his job by the airline.
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