Published: September 5th, 2008 02:07 AM
Last Modified: September 5th, 2008 02:07 AM
The man who threatened to blow up an Alaska Airlines plane while pacing the aisle, preaching with a Bible in hand, has been sentenced in federal court to five years of probation, the U.S. attorney said Thursday.
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Kirk Frederic Forest, 39, pleaded guilty in January to making the threat and has been in the custody since. A condition of his sentence is that he undergo in-patient mental health counseling during his probation, prosecutors said.
Forest was accused of walking the aisles of the Anchorage-bound flight from Seattle holding a Bible and proselytizing to fellow passengers -- sometimes talking in tongues -- about God, Jesus and how they should get to know each other. When confronted, Forest told flight attendants that he had a bomb and asked one of them if he should blow the aircraft up.
Forest was restrained and the aircraft landed safely. No bomb was on board.
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