The 45-year-old man was originally stopped by Australian Border Force for a baggage examination at Perth International Airport on September 29. ABF personnel had also identified that the man was allegedly behaving suspiciously on his arrival.
A Piper PA-32R Cherokee Lance aircraft, carrying three people, crashed and caught fire on take-off at the airport on Saturday, October 11. All three people on board were fatally injured.
Bennet and Graham are expected to be the only Australians to take to the skies at the event, using their Wolf Pitts S1-11X and WolfPitts S1S aircraft in front of more than a million expected spectators.
