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MELBOURNE, Fla. – Channel 9 's was maintained with the airport' s maintenance officer on Friday, who stopped a man while he was boarding a plane. American Airlines in maintenance.
"I knew right away – I mean, we were trained," said Shayne Graves, an airport maintenance attendant. No badge Looked down – no shoe on this foot This is not ok, nothing is ok for this kid.
The 22-year-old flight student jumped on a security fence at Melbourne International Airport on Thursday and reached the cockpit of an empty plane before two maintenance officers stopped him, investigators said.
Melbourne airport officials said Nishal Sankat, a native of Trinidad and Tobago, violated airport security around 1:30 am.
On the scene: security breach at Melbourne International Airport
Authorities said Sankat had tried to steal the plane.
Graves confronted Sankat while he was in the plane. Graves said that he had not hesitated to act because he was thinking of the attacks of September 11th.
"I said it would not happen again," Graves said sobbing.
"He looked around me and said," You come with me. You come from this plane. "I knocked him down at the front door, I took him on that golf cart and we got into the shed," Graves said.
Graves said the suspect appeared to be taking drugs.
Sankat was studying aviation management at the Florida Institute of Technology and had completed flight training, school officials said. Investigators said he was not rated for the type of plane he was accused of attempting to steal.
"I really think it's an Indian pig that tests airport security – I really think so," Graves said.
The Joint Terrorism Task Force, which includes the FBI, is currently conducting an investigation, but Sankat is already facing state charges of visa violation, trespassing and criminal theft of an aircraft.
Officials said Sankat is cooperating. He is being held at Brevard County Jail.
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