{"id":29590,"date":"2017-05-31T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/former-afl-player-confronts-man-threatening-to-blow-up-plane\/"},"modified":"2017-05-31T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T00:00:00","slug":"former-afl-player-confronts-man-threatening-to-blow-up-plane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/show\/former-afl-player-confronts-man-threatening-to-blow-up-plane\/","title":{"rendered":"Former AFL player confronts man threatening to blow up plane"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Former Melbourne Demon Andrew Leoncelli says he felt \u201cawesome terror\u201d as he came face to face with a man threatening to blow up a Malaysian Airlines flight out of Melbourne on Wednesday night.<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cOne of the hostesses yelled out, \u2018I need help,\u2019 in a very strong tone,\u201d Andrew told David and Will on FIVEAA. \u201cI unbuckled my seatbelt and pushed up to the front, turned around the corner, and came face to face with this idiot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said the man was dressed in back and making threats and carrying an \u201cunusual object\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt was pretty confronting &#8212; not what I expected. In hindsight you take the threat 100 per cent seriously. There was that real pit-of-your-stomach moment where it was just awesome terror &#8212; this guy could be serious because he was making quite strong threats.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI basically confronted him. He ran off down the aisle, he went to the back of the plane, and two or three other gentlemen subdued him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was easily subdued. They hogtied him.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>LISTEN HERE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/325427570&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"366\" width=\"650\" class=\"media-element file-default nova-lazyload-image-wrapper lz-cont img-responsive\" data-delta=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/leoncelli.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<h6>Leoncelli during his playing days<\/h6>\n<p><strong>Victorian Police say they are not treating the incident as terrorism, and say the suspect is known to them for mental health issues.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe way he went about it was odd\u2026 it wasn\u2019t planned, it wasn\u2019t calm,\u201d Andrew said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think he was mentally deranged, but it was very frightening.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The plane returned to Melbourne where police boarded the plane and took the man into custody.<\/p>\n<h3>MOST POPULAR<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/david-and-will\/david-and-will-slam-colleague-over-drink-driving-conviction\"><strong>DAVID AND WILL SLAM COLLEAGUE OVER DRINK DRIVING CONVICTION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/shows\/rowey-bicks\/port-adelaide-star-is-the-best-in-the-afl\"><strong>THIS PORT ADELAIDE STAR IS THE BEST IN THE AFL, SAYS JONATHAN BROWN<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Melbourne Demon Andrew Leoncelli says he felt \u201cawesome terror\u201d as he came face to face with a man threatening to blow up a Malaysian Airlines flight out of Melbourne on Wednesday night. \u201cOne of the hostesses yelled out, \u2018I need help,\u2019 in a very strong tone,\u201d Andrew told David and Will on FIVEAA. \u201cI [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[244,231],"tags":[],"geo_market":[],"class_list":["post-29590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-david-and-will","category-show"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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