Passenger fined for bomb threat
A Chinese passenger was recently fined for communicating a fake bomb threat to budget carrier AirAsia.
Liu Jinqi, 28, wanted to change her seat but after several attempts to contact the airline failed, she opted to take drastic action.
After attempts to contact the airline through the website and email failed to get a response, she took to the airline’s chatbot.
She wrote: “Human service emergency, bomb dangerous.”
The airline then contacted police.
Liu Jinqi, 28, was travelling in Malaysia and booked an AirAsia flight from Tawau in Sabah to Kuala Lumpur (KL), ahead of another flight from KL back to Beijing, China.
Liu and her travel companion were tracked down and arrested last week.
Liu pleaded guilty to a charge of criminal intimidation.
She was fined RM5,000.
Liu said: “I only wanted to change my seat. I had tried contacting AirAsia, but there was no response. That is why I used the word ‘bomb’ so that my message would get immediate attention.”
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