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 been offered free flights for life.

A passenger on a Jetstar flight from Melbourne to Sydney is being praised as a hero after disarming a teen who police allege tried to carry a weapon on board. The 17-year-old is facing eight charges while a shearer who stepped in to disarm him is being praised as a hero and has been offered free flights for life.

A teenager in Australia was arrested for allegedly entering a commercial plane armed with a gun. According to reports from outlets citing witnesses at the scene, the weapon was a loaded shotgun. A 17-year-old from the Ballarat region in Australia has been charged with unlawfully taking control of an aircraft,

Passengers and crew held down the 17 year old, who had a shotgun and also claimed to have bombs, until the police arrived, the authorities said.

"I looked up and then within a second I saw the barrel of a shotgun and I thought to myself that ain’t a tool that should be on a plane," Barry Clark, a former boxer, told a local news outlet.

A 17-year-old in Australia faces multiple charges after allegedly boarding a Jetstar flight with a shotgun on Thursday (March 6). The incident occurred at Avalon Airport, near Melbourne, where the teenager was subdued by passengers and crew before police arrived.