Montana Man Charged After Breaching Security At Missoula Airport

From KRTV:

On Tuesday October 29th a man in Missoula, Montana ran through security checkpoints to get to a plane and attempted to get inside the cockpit of the plane from Alaska Airlines. The man later identified as Justin Seymour has been charged with felony burglary and aggravated burglary according to KRTV.

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Seymour Charged With Burglary In Missoula

According to KRTV the court documents they received state Seymour ran past a security checkpoint, down the jetway of a plane that had just landed and then attempted to push his way into the plane’s cockpit. Employees blocked his attempts and law enforcement were able to detain him quickly without further incident.

The strange part about this is the comments Seymour was making during his arrest. Law enforcement reported that he said he needed to get to Estonia and made comments about how he figured it 'wasn't that difficult to learn how to fly a plane.'

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I for one am glad that TSA, security, law enforcement and airport employees all acted quickly to stop Seymour without anything worse taking place. There is no further information on if Seymour was suffering from any sort of medical incident or whether substance abuse was a part of the attempt. The report also states that the airplane was delayed for 3 hours after the incident.

There is no word at this time if there is going to be more charges brought against Seymour but he is being held on $500,000 for each count he faces. We will update this story with any further information that is released.