A lack of police presence at the airport meant officers had to race nine kilometres to arrest a teenager who claimed to be ...

Questions are raised over how a 17-year-old boy was allegedly able to evade security at Avalon Airport and board a flight ...

A teenager accused of attempting to hijack a Jetstar flight allegedly declared “I’ve got bombs in my bag” before he was ...

In the wake of an apparent attempted hijacking, it has been revealed Melbourne’s Avalon Airport has no stationed federal or state police.

Police say a 17-year-old boy with a loaded shotgun boarded a plane in Australia before being restrained by a pilot and two ...

A teenager allegedly armed with a shotgun breached an airport’s security fence and tried to force his way onto a commercial ...

Avalon Airport has no Australian Federal Police or Victoria Police officers stationed at the facility in a security gap that ...

Barry Clark jumped into action and detained a teenager who allegedly attempted to board a plane with a gun on Thursday.

A man has attempted to take a gun onto a commercial Jetstar flight that was due to depart Avalon Airport on Thursday ...

A 17-year-old boy was arrested after breaching security at Avalon Airport and attempting to board a Jetstar flight with a ...

About one in five people in this suburb are unemployed, while a nearby employment precinct is almost unreachable without public transport links.

The boy was disarmed and detained before police arrived on the scene Thursday at Avalon Airport in Victoria state.