BOMB SCARE ON PLANE

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31327, 25 March 1967, Page 19

BOMB SCARE ON PLANE

Cost To Navy 3853 Doi. The cost of a bomb scare aboard a United States Navy plane which had left Harewood airport was 3853 dollars 13 cents, Lieutenant-Com-mander David Willingham said in the Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. Before the Court was Leonie Phyllis Bailey, aged 28, a machinist, on a charge that she used a telephone to give a fictitious message to Robert Edward Teeters, a petty officer of the United States Navy at Harewood airport. Willingham and another officer gave evidence before both men flew back to the United States. Mr K. H. J. Headifen, S.M., was on the bench. Willingham said the cost of one day’s delay to the 59 men aboard the plane was 944 dollars. Each man received 16 dollars a day extra pay when he was travelling. Other costs were 89 dollars and 3 cents for food at Ohakea airport, and fuel costs for the extra stops at Auckland were 2818 dollars. Teeters said he received a telephone call at the Navy base on March 8 from a woman with “a nervous voice.” She said there was a bomb on board the plane which had left the airport an hour earlier. She would not give her name, but he had the telephone operator trace the call. She Said she had overheard two men in a bar talking about a bomb in the plane, said witness. Bailey was remanded on bail to April 12 for the taking of further depositions.