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Police alleged he had told a cabin crew member “I have a bomb” and uttered the word “bomb” on other occasions, forcing the pilot to turn the plane around about 40 minutes after it took off from Singapore.
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There were 362 passengers on the Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft and some spoke afterwards of the scare they received at the sight of the fighter jets through the windows, and the news from the cockpit that there had been a bomb threat, albeit one thought to be fake.
But prosecutors will have taken into account Hawkins’ mental disorder when determining their stance on a sentence.
He had stopped taking his medication for schizophrenia in the lead-up to the mid-air incident and his father Frank told The West Australian newspaper last month that it was obviously “voices” in Hawkins’ head that led him to make the hoax bomb threat.
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