BOYS CAUSE AIRPORT SCARE - Seven, eight-y-o chase plane on Montego Bay airstrip
Crazypickney said
11:32 03/04 2008
wo boys had to be removed from the airstrip at the Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, St James last week, after they went on the runway and began 'running down' planes claiming they wanted to go abroad.
The boys, ages eight and seven, who are from Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, some 40 miles from the airport, took a bus to the second city after school, police told THE STAR.
Montego Bay's top cop, Superintendent Steve McGregor, said the boys entered the airport through a dead end and somehow managed to get on the airstrip. "They said they heard the plane and followed the sound because they wanted to go abroad," Supt. McGregor told THE STAR. "I personally spoke to their parents and told them they were lucky we didn't arrest them because they can't leave two little boys alone like that."
The boys, one of whom told police he wanted to be a pilot, told officers that they asked a woman to put them on a bus to Montego Bay after leaving school. They exited the bus at the Montego Bay Transportation Centre and, following the sounds of the planes, walked to an area known as 'Dead End' at the rear of the airport. They then walked around a wall and climbed over a fence to get on the runway.
Police said shortly after 5 p.m. a pilot, turning to make a take-off, saw the boys and apparently radioed the tower who sent for them to be picked up, but not before the boys began running after and beckoning to at least two planes. They were blown to the ground twice by the two aircrafts, police said.
"The airport's authorities need to secure the place more," an officer who spoke to the boys said, "If kids can get on to the airport property then anyone can get on there and do anything and it could cause some serious problems."
When the police contacted their colleagues at the Savanna-la-Mar Police Station, the boys' mothers had already made missing person reports. The parents were taken to Montego Bay where they were questioned and released with their children.
Efforts to speak to a representative from the Airports Authority of Jamaica proved unsuccessful yesterday.
DJ O.P. said
11:37 03/04 2008
lol
up2 said
11:38 03/04 2008
a joke ting dis.
mi waan kno how dem reach ova deh still
bombaz said
13:46 03/04 2008
u kno tings bad wen the kids dem wa run weh go a farin lol
linko said
13:48 03/04 2008
poor thing
reemix_1st said
13:49 03/04 2008
dat sad stills mi naw lie...
Buddah said
15:09 03/05 2008
yutes lookin 4 new life in miami...lol
linko said
18:51 03/05 2008
mi feel it still naa lie...........to how tings bad evn di yute dem waa fly out.....jahkno
viper_3kj said
18:54 03/05 2008
lol
xForcex said
18:55 03/05 2008
ahahah WOOW EVERYTHING SERIOUS
ghettoyute said
20:51 03/05 2008
Dem yutes ya a sample
rrDesignZ said
20:52 03/05 2008
lol
jamaican5star said
20:53 03/05 2008
lol
MonEyBeLLy said
20:56 03/05 2008
lol a mobay mi live and mi can tell yuh seh it well easy fi guh ova pon the airport run way. one a mi fren brother run weh one time a guh a air port and reach pon plane already, but dem find him before the plan take off....that was funny day....the community a laugh...
The boys, ages eight and seven, who are from Savanna-la-Mar, Westmoreland, some 40 miles from the airport, took a bus to the second city after school, police told THE STAR.
Montego Bay's top cop, Superintendent Steve McGregor, said the boys entered the airport through a dead end and somehow managed to get on the airstrip. "They said they heard the plane and followed the sound because they wanted to go abroad," Supt. McGregor told THE STAR. "I personally spoke to their parents and told them they were lucky we didn't arrest them because they can't leave two little boys alone like that."
The boys, one of whom told police he wanted to be a pilot, told officers that they asked a woman to put them on a bus to Montego Bay after leaving school. They exited the bus at the Montego Bay Transportation Centre and, following the sounds of the planes, walked to an area known as 'Dead End' at the rear of the airport. They then walked around a wall and climbed over a fence to get on the runway.
Police said shortly after 5 p.m. a pilot, turning to make a take-off, saw the boys and apparently radioed the tower who sent for them to be picked up, but not before the boys began running after and beckoning to at least two planes. They were blown to the ground twice by the two aircrafts, police said.
"The airport's authorities need to secure the place more," an officer who spoke to the boys said, "If kids can get on to the airport property then anyone can get on there and do anything and it could cause some serious problems."
When the police contacted their colleagues at the Savanna-la-Mar Police Station, the boys' mothers had already made missing person reports. The parents were taken to Montego Bay where they were questioned and released with their children.
Efforts to speak to a representative from the Airports Authority of Jamaica proved unsuccessful yesterday.