Man charged after running in underwear on Atlanta airport runway

A teenager has been criminally charged after running half-naked across an Atlanta airport runway and jumping onto the wing of a Delta Air Lines plane that had just landed. Officials on Wednesday said Jhyrin Jones, 19, conducted his escapade after scaling a 12-foot high fence topped with barbed wire at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport, the world’s busiest, the previous afternoon. Police took about five minutes to apprehend Jones, who had been barefoot and wearing only underwear, after being alerted by an airport employee, Atlanta Police Major Timothy Peek told reporters. “What can stop a person from jumping a fence?” Peek said, adding the Jones had also dashed through an open construction site and over a public fence. “There are plenty of laws to deter activity - unfortunately, they don’t stop activity.” Jones was charged with criminal trespassing, public indecency, causing damage and obstruction of law enforcement officers. Bond was set on Wednesday at $18,000 by a magistrate court in Clayton County, Georgia, court documents showed. Jones’ lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Onboard passenger Tim James recalled his fear at the sight of Jones on the wing, attempting to rip open the emergency door of the plane that had just arrived from Miami. “He actually got it open until the stewardess,” James, 32, a marketing manager from Atlanta, said in an interview.