Upset about disrupted holiday plans, a tourist twice threatened to crash his flight while waiting to board at Singapore’s Changi Airport.
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Moncrieff Marli Curtis Philip, a 36-year-old Australian, was jailed for eight weeks on Wednesday after pleading guilty to one count of using threatening words to cause alarm.
A second similar charge was considered in sentencing.
The court heard that sometime before November 20, 2024, Moncrieff took a Jetstar flight from Perth to Phuket, stopping over in Singapore.
Moncrieff had been planning this trip for a while and it cost him a good deal of money, the prosecutor said.
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However, he was denied entry in Phuket as a page of visas was torn out of his passport. He was placed on a flight to Singapore, where he was also denied entry for the same reason.
At Changi Airport, immigration officers helped Moncrieff to retrieve prescription medication for anxiety and depression from his check-in luggage.