Crossed wires set off false alarm in bomb scare
The World Today - Monday, 7 August , 2006 12:46:00
Reporter: Daniel Hoare
ELEANOR HALL: And staying in Melbourne, the coach of the soccer team Melbourne Victory says his team's Brazilian players will now be getting lessons in English as well as ball skills, after star recruit Alessandro caused a major security scare on a flight from Sydney to Tamworth on Friday.
Sitting in an emergency aisle, Alessandro was asked if he understood evacuation procedures.
He answered in his native language, "Yes Good": or rather in Portuguese, "Si, bom, bom".
And with that the flight was grounded and the Federal Police were called in, as Daniel Hoare reports.
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