SINGAPORE: A 30-year-old man was sentenced to seven months’ jail after he stole a credit card belonging to another passenger while on a flight to Singapore, police said in a news release on Friday (Sep 20).
Jiang Yangbo, a Chinese national, was a passenger on board AirAsia flight AK719 departing Kuala Lumpur on May 16 when he removed a fellow passenger’s blue laptop bag from the overhead compartment.
The victim, Jin Chengjie, a 36-year-old Chinese national working in Singapore, was seated one row in front of him.
Placing the bag on his lap, Jiang rummaged through it, took Jin’s Citibank credit card and put it into his right rear pocket, court documents show.
He then returned the laptop bag to the overhead compartment and went to the bathroom, before returning to his seat.
However, another passenger seated on the same row as Jiang saw what happened, and noticed after the plane landed at Changi Airport that Jiang had only a black sling bag with him.
