Man accused after running in underwear on the runway of Atlanta Airport

(Reuters) – A teenager was charged after running half naked on a runway at the Atlanta airport and jumping on the wing of a Delta Air Lines plane that had just disembarked. # 39; landing.

Officials said Wednesday that 19-year-old Jhyrin Jones led his getaway after climbing a 12-foot tall barbed wire fence at the world's busiest Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. previous afternoon.

The police took about five minutes to apprehend Jones, who was barefoot and wearing only underwear, after being alerted by an airport employee, told reporters the police chief of the police. Atlanta, Timothy Peek.

"What can prevent a person from jumping a fence?" Said Peek, adding that Jones had also jumped through an open construction site and onto a public fence. "There are a lot of laws to deter activities – unfortunately, they do not stop the activity."

Jones has been charged with criminal trespbading, public indecency, causing harm and hindering law enforcement officers.

Bond was set Wednesday at $ 18,000 by a court of law in Clayton County, Georgia, showed court documents.

Jones' lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The pbadenger on board Tim James recalled his fear at the sight of Jones on the wing, trying to tear the emergency door of the plane that had just arrived from Miami.

"He did open it until the air hostess and people in the alley started to fight," said James, 32, a marketing director from Atlanta, said in an interview Wednesday.

"People were crying." My first thoughts were that he had jumped off the plane, so I was more concerned that he had something else in him. plane that had to be removed, it was scary. "

After the flight crew secured the door, Jones walked to the window where James was sitting.

"He pulled out his ID card, then he put it in his mouth and tore it up and threw it on the floor," James said.

Jones has had two previous arrests in his home state of Alabama, one for a handgun violation and another for underage drinking, according to WSB- TV.

The arrest follows a series of similar incidents in other US airports.

In February, a shirtless pbadenger who was expelled from his flight attacked an employee on the tarmac at the Charlotte Douglas Airport in North Carolina.

At Miami International Airport, a man who snuck onto a baggage conveyor reached the tarmac in November and in January, a man entered the cargo area, claiming to be lost.