Air passenger arrested for stealing N1m onboard

<p>Air Peace on Wednesday said a passenger on board one of its flights allegedly stole N1m from another passenger’s bag but was caught.</p>, <p>The airline’s spokesperson, Stanley Olisa, said in a statement in Lagos that the incident took place onboard Abuja-Port Harcourt flight P47192 on July 27.</p>, <p>The News Agency of Nigeria reports that there have been reported cases of theft onboard aircraft involving different airlines operating in the country in recent times.</p>, <p>Olisa said the suspect stole the amount contained in a brown envelope but was caught by the owner of the money, with the intervention of the airline’s staff.</p>, <p>He explained that during the flight, the suspect took another passenger’s computer bag from the overhead cabin.</p>, <p>“He, thereafter, took the brown envelope containing the money, put the computer bag in another luggage compartment and moved to an empty seat at the back of the aircraft,” he said.</p>, <p>Olisa added that the suspect was one of the first few to disembark despite the announcement of a proper disembarkation sequence by the crew.</p>, <p>He said the suspect was eventually caught and the money retrieved from him, with different currencies in different denominations found on him.</p>, <p>Olisa said the suspect was handed over to the security operatives of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria for onward transfer to the police for further investigations.</p>, <p>He said the police later confirmed to have released him on bail.</p>