The World - News from Oct. 9, 1989

Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu’s son was arrested for the second time in a year for threatening to blow up an airliner, South African officials said. Trevor Tutu, an advertising executive, left the plane briefly during a stopover in South London on a domestic South African Airways flight to Johannesburg. When he prepared to reboard, police said, he refused to pass through a metal detector and was ejected from the plane, which took off. He then allegedly pulled out what appeared to be a pocket calculator and threatened to detonate a device on the plane, which returned and was searched but no bomb was found. Tutu was free on bail pending appeal of a conviction of a Johannesburg bomb hoax last New Year’s Eve.