Passengers escorted off Qantas flight by police after Sydney airport security breach

Qantas passengers on a Sydney-Melbourne flight were escorted by police into the unscreened area of Melbourne airport on Wednesday evening after one passenger bypassed screening at Sydney airport. Photograph: Joel Carrett/AAP

All passengers on a Qantas flight from Sydney on Wednesday evening were escorted off the plane by police to the unscreened area of Melbourne airport, after one passenger managing to bypass screening.

A Qantas spokesperson said “a passenger on a Sydney to Melbourne service (QF487) boarded the flight after inadvertently passing from an ‘unscreened’ to a ‘screened’ part of the airport in Sydney.”