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

The 17-year-old is facing eight charges while a sheepshearer who stepped in to disarm him is being praised as a hero and has ...

Australia's peak airport body has joined calls for security reforms in the wake of the Avalon Airport incident.

When the security crisis unfolded on Thursday afternoon, local police from Lara - nine kilometres away - were the ones that ...

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

A man is in custody after attempting to take a firearm onto a commercial flight that was due to depart Avalon Airport for ...

A man has been arrested after he allegedly tried to board a commercial flight with a gun. Police were called to Avalon ...

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

Several heroic passengers were able to detain a 17-year-old boy who allegedly dressed as a maintenance worker to board a Jetstar flight at an Australian airport with a shotgun and ammunition, ...

But on closer inspection, it becomes clear this pile sitting on the tarmac is the alleged hijacking kit of the teenager who ...