{"id":14415,"date":"2025-07-25T05:10:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14415"},"modified":"2025-07-25T05:10:35","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T17:10:35","slug":"nz-man-sentenced-for-drunken-assault-during-perth-auckland-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=14415","title":{"rendered":"NZ man sentenced for drunken assault during Perth-Auckland flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A New Zealand man has been sentenced for drunkenly assaulting two airline crew on a flight from Perth to Auckland.<\/p>\n<p>His actions resulted in the plane being diverted to Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>This week, the 23-year-old was sentenced by the County Court of Victoria to six months&#8217; imprisonment, to be released immediately on a two-year good behaviour bond. He was also ordered to pay the airline $10,824 (NZ$11,834) in compensation.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Federal Police were called to reports of an intoxicated and disruptive passenger on 23 October, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The man refused to comply with requests from two crew members and assaulted both, causing minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police said officers boarded the plane once it landed at Melbourne Aircraft and removed the passenger, who had been restrained at the back of the aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>He pleaded guilty on 17 April, 2025, to two counts of assaulting crew of an aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Detective Superintendent Stephen Cook said airline staff deserved to feel safe in their workplace and not be subjected to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/world\/538322\/man-faces-fijian-court-over-alleged-rape-and-sexual-assault-of-virgin-airlines-crew-member\">violence and aggression from passengers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Anti-social behaviour during a flight can pose a direct threat to the safety of the aircraft, and in this instance, also inconvenience passengers onboard,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The AFP works closely with the airline industry to intervene if anyone&#8217;s behaviour interferes with the safety of workers or the public in or around an airport, or on flights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New Zealand man has been sentenced for drunkenly assaulting two airline crew on a flight from Perth to Auckland. His actions resulted in the plane being diverted to Melbourne. This week, the 23-year-old was sentenced by the County Court of Victoria to six months&#8217; imprisonment, to be released immediately on a two-year good behaviour [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":14416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14417,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14415\/revisions\/14417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}