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Kenneth W. Smith Jr. allegedly placed the hoax call to Philadelphia Police claiming Christopher Shell was planning to board a plane with a liquid explosive. NBC10's Monique Braxton spoke to Smith's attorney who says his client is embarrassed.
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Airplane Hoax Was a Romantic Revenge: Sources
A hoax set off enough of a panic to divert a US Airways flight in mid-air this morning, and it got a Philly man handcuffed and interrogated before police figured out he was an innocent victim. NBC10's Monique Braxton reports.
The Philadelphia man who admitted to calling in a fake report about explosives on a Dallas-Fort Worth-bound airplane that caused the plane to be diverted back to Philadelphia International Airport will write an apology letter to every person on that plane.
Kenneth Smith Jr., 26, pleaded guilty Monday to malicious false information about an explosive, and false information and hoaxes, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney's Eastern District of Pennsylvania Office.
Smith admitted he made the call to Philly Airport Police on the morning of Sept. 6 knowing that the information about Christopher Shell boarding a plane for Dallas with liquid explosives on him was false.
Smith, a pizza cook, faces up to 15 years in prison, up to $500,000 in fines and restitution when he is sentenced April 16. He already agreed to pay restitution and write an apology letter to every passenger who was on Flight 1267 when it was delayed. He also agreed to reimburse the emergency response costs, prosecutors said.
Flight 1267 was turned around shortly after taking off from Philadelphia International Airport. Sixty-nine passengers and five crew members were on the plane. In a strange twist, the incident happened on Shell's 29th birthday.
Smith's reasoning for the hoax, according to federal prosecutors, was to "avenge" a woman who was at the time identified as Shell's ex-girlfriend and Smith's current girlfriend. Reportedly Shell had posted a compromising photo of the woman on Facebook.
Shell was removed from the airplane in handcuffs. He later wound up making it to Dallas where we was arrested on two outstanding warrants, police said. NBC Dallas spoke to Shell in October about the plane hoax and how it derailed his career.
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