Man waving Toblerone tried to ‘hijack’ plane

A passenger on board a Hong Kong-bound Cathay Pacific flight, armed only with a Toblerone chocolate bar, demanded the plane fly to Sochi so he could watch the Winter Olympics, a court heard.

Antti Oskari Manselius, 23, from Finland, also made a false bomb threat on the February 14 flight from Amsterdam and said he was robbing the plane, the South China Morning Post reported.

Manselius pleaded not guilty to disorderly conduct and giving false information about a bomb when he appeared in court this week, the Post said. He said he was trying to entertain the other passengers and was making “fun and jokes”.

Two flight attendants told the court that they saw Manselius walking towards the cockpit. He had two economy-class blankets wrapped around his head and was wearing another like a cape. He held the Toblerone chocolate bar “like a sword”, the newspaper said, quoting one of the attendants.

Leung said the passenger was not violent, only waving the bar. Manselius was arrested in Hong Kong and sent to a psychiatric centre.

The hearing continues.