2023-06-06 09:01:00
Daniel Carbone, the flight attendant accused of making the telephone call that threatened the presence of a bomb on an Aerolíneas Argentinas flight, continues to be detained in a special cell at the Ezeiza International Airport. The woman refused to testify and awaits the decision of federal judge Federico Villena on the request for house arrest requested by her lawyer.
The crimes that fall on Carbone are public intimidation and obstruction of public services (art. 211 and 194 of the Penal Code, respectively). Both are serious offenses, therefore, if the accusation and the crime are proven, the company will sanction the person investigated in proportion to the seriousness of the fact,” Aerolíneas Argentinas had anticipated, which will appear as a plaintiff in the case. The company lost a million dollars for delaying the flight that was supposed to travel to Miami.
Stewardess arrested: how was the threat to the Aerolíneas Argentinas flight
On Sunday, May 21, Aerolíneas flight AR1304 had to be evacuated in its entirety when it was about to leave for Miami, with 270 passengers and 12 crew members at 07:35, when both the flight commander and ground personnel received a threat associated with the flight.
Finally, after confirming that it was a false threat, the plane took off at 4:50 p.m., more than nine hours after schedule.
According to sources linked to the investigation, the threat consisted of an audio that said: “Tell the captain that we planted three bombs on him in Miami. Let him stop messing with politics and check the plane because they are going to fly into a thousand pieces.” “.
The voice was distorted, but investigators were able to first establish that it was a woman and then identify the source of the communication, which led to the flight attendant’s arrest.
How was the arrest of the flight attendant accused of bomb threat
Judge Villena and prosecutor Sergio Mola immediately began working with the staff of the Anti-Terrorism Division of the Airport Security Police.
And there was a detail that caught the attention of the researchers. There are threats at the airport all the time, but the phone number that had been used that day was not an easy number to get.
Another clue that allowed the detectives to orient themselves was the shapes. “You could tell that he was a person who knew about airport activity,” said a source consulted by Infobae.
In addition, the pilot, to whom the threat was directed, was not participating in union political activity. The warning about “stop messing around with politics” allowed us to think about a knowledge of the internal world of the occupants of the crew and no longer of the passengers.
Investigators focused on the woman 48 hours after the onset of the case. But they needed to collect evidence and confirm suspicions. The call came from her daughter’s phone, with a prepaid chip. The woman was arrested upon arriving in the country on her last flight. “They were waiting for her,” the sources said.
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