When they had him on the ground, Contu lifted Marks’ singlet. Contu followed by tackling him around the waist. Joyner jumped up and put Marks in a headlock. Marks was demanding to get into the cockpit but flight attendants managed to force him back. The pair who grew up surfing together, from Cape Patterson and San Remo respectively, were seated in the last third of the plane. “Troy tapped me and said, ‘He’s got a bomb’. Initially, Contu didn’t believe his friend. I thought, ‘This guy is pretty serious’.” “He had a remote in his left hand that looked pretty legit. They flicked the lights on and I could see he had a singlet on with a device under his singlet that stood out, sort of two inches from his stomach. More people were starting to move around. The cabin crew in front of us starting to talk in Malaysian. “I said, ‘Mate, that guy’s got a bomb’,” Joyner recalls. Manodh Marks was arrested for trying to enter the cockpit of a Malaysia airlines flight. Joyner told Contu - a former military veteran with experience disarming explosives - that there was an apparent act of terrorism unfolding right before them. What passengers and crew didn’t know at the time is that they were bluetooth speakers. The 26-year-old was holding two black packages with blue flashing lights on them. “As I turned around, (Marks) ran past me and said, ‘I’ve got a bomb’.” “Everyone was sort of sitting there relaxing, watching movies,” he says. It’s why he was able to hear what happened next so clearly. Joyner, in the aisle seat on the left hand side of the plane, recalls that the headphones were not working on the right ear. “We sat down, I put a movie on,” Contu says. They say the incident is still fresh in their memories. Joyner and Contu spoke to on Tuesday as they were recognised with bravery awards for the role they played as the aircraft took off shortly after 11pm on May 31, 2017. The Malaysia Airlines passenger who made bomb threats was subdued by two surfers from Victoria.
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