'Tinnie' five accused arriving in MEL shortly

[Melburnian1]

Skytraders may carry Australian Antarctic personnel to and from Tassie and Antarctica but it has a low profile in Oz.

However on Thursday 19 May A319 VH-VHD was airborne from CNS at 0638 and is about to arrive in MEL at roughly 0940.

I gather it has the five accused so-called 'tinnie terrorists' on board, probably with as many if not more police.

We can all joke about their stupidity in taking a vehicle plus boat all the way from Bendigo to near Cape York in FNQ but these people, if the allegations are correct, are extremely dangerous. Well done to the police for apprehending them. Skytraders may have a high profile in tonight's television news as doubtless media at Melbourne Airport have their cameras trained on the runway, although as usual these remandees will be driven off from the tarmac in police vehicles.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

IMHO - not on AFF pls.

 

[Pushka]

Still don't know why they just didnt let them go off cruising.

 

[stoneman]

Still don't know why they just didnt let them go off cruising.

Totally agree, what a waste of money .. :O

 

[medhead]

We can all joke about their stupidity in taking a vehicle plus boat all the way from Bendigo to near Cape York in FNQ

Yet thousands of people do this every year to go fishing and crabbing.

Still don't know why they just didnt let them go off cruising.

1. Because enforcing our laws is important. Why don't they just let people speed while driving.
2. Because it potentially saves Australian lives. I see this "let them go" nonsense on Facebook. So we let them go and they end up in Iraq where Australians are risking their lives to bomb them. Where Australian tax payer money is being used to bomb them.

 

[whatmeworry]

Still don't know why they just didnt let them go off cruising.

To prevent idiots like them reinforcing Daesh. It's about nipping it in the bud and preventing the Syrian conflict going on forever.

 

[burmans]

Why don't they just let people speed while driving.
Because it potentially saves Australian lives.

Not if they are driving in Syria it doesn't.

 

[medhead]

Not if they are driving in Syria it doesn't.

Seriously? Talk about quoting out of context. The two sentences were not related, they are part of two separate reasons. I've now edited to add numbers to aid understanding.

 

[UP4014]

Still don't know why they just didnt let them go off cruising.

I think there is an international convention we've signed up to on letting terrorists be free to roam.

 

[Pushka]

I think there is an internation convention we sign up to on letting terrorists be free to roam.

I figured they wouldn't make it to Indonesia.

Not sure what speeding has to do with it.

 

[medhead]

I figured they wouldn't make it to Indonesia.

Not sure what speeding has to do with it.

It's was a simple concept. You don't know why we didn't ignore our laws and let them go. I'm simply asking which other laws we should ignore.

 

[JohnK]

IMHO - not on AFF pls.

This discussion? Probably.

They should have let the go. More than likely they wouldn't have made it.

 

[marki]

They would have used a mobile phone, call AMSA (Aust. Maritime Safety Authority) when in trouble costing Australia even more. Not on AFF please :! funny enough they don't call anywhere else).

This discussion? Probably.

They should have let the go. More than likely they wouldn't have made it.

 

[UP4014]

They would have used a mobile phone, call AMSA (Aust. Maritime Safety Authority) when in trouble costing Australia even more. Not on AFF please :! funny enough they don't call anywhere else).

I'm not sure they would have had the AMSA phone number with them.