$33,000 in cash stolen from passengers in mid-air heist on Scoot flight
A man has been charged with theft after allegedly stealing more than $23,000 in cash from three fellow passengers while on a budget flight from Vietnam to Singapore.
The man was named in court charge sheets as Zhang Xiuqiang, a 52-year-old Chinese national who was on board a flight operated by Scoot, the budget wing of Singapore Airlines. An airline spokesperson told CNN that it "was aware of an incident" that occurred on board a flight from Ho Chi Minh City to Singapore on December 16.
"Our cabin crew was alerted by a passenger to a suspected theft in the cabin and activated the Airport Police Division," the spokesperson said. "The involved passengers were escorted off the aircraft by airport authorities for further investigation, and disembarkation proceeded as usual for the ...