KOTA KINABALU: A water purifier sales agent was slapped with a RM10,000 fine in default three months' jail for smoking on board an aircraft.
Muhammad Afiq Zakwan Zakaria, 3, pleaded guilty to the charge before High Court senior assistant registrar Mohammad Azeem Mohd Ridzo, who sat as a Magistrate here on Thursday .
Muhammad Afiq, from Temerloh in Pahang, was accused of committing the offence on an AirAsia Kuala Lumpur-Kota Kinabalu flight at 1am on Nov 6. The flight typically takes two hours and 40 minutes. The court heard that during the incident, senior cabin crew member Irnawati Japar caught a whiff of cigarette smoke.She told Muhammad Afiq that it was an offence to smoke on board a flight, but he apparently did not listen.She informed the pilot, who then instructed her and the rest of the cabin crew to keep an eye on Muhammad Afiq and not to provoke him.
Muhammad Afiq, who was unrepresented, asked for a lower fine, saying he only took a puff of the cigarette during the incident.Deputy public prosecutor DK Afiqah Alya Tinkerbell PG Johari urged for a heavy sentence as smoking on board a flight was a serious offence, which could have triggered the fire alarm and caused panic.
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