A 21-year-old Seaman Recruit was arrested after trying to steal a UPS cargo plane from Pensacola International Airport, according to Pensacola Naval Air Station officials.
Mahiri Hanif told police he wanted to fly the plane home to see his mother, reports the Pensacola News Journal.
But he didn't have a plane ticket or money to buy one, so he reportedly tried to sneak onto a flight for free; and when that did not work he scaled a barbed wire fence and tried to commandeer a plane.
He was caught in the cockpit with his hands on the controls.
Hanif had recently been dishonorably discharged from the military after having suffered through unspecified problems at Naval Air Technical Training Center. He now faces burglary of an unoccupied conveyance and battery of an officer charges.
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