From the Courts - Federal District Court: Woman sentenced to prison for lunging at airplane flight controls during landing at Havre airport

U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Montana

GREAT FALLS — A federal judge Nov. 6 sentenced a Havre woman to 19 months and 24 days in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for lunging at the controls of a small commercial airplane as the plane was landing, causing it to accelerate and turn on the runway, U.S. Attorney Jesse Laslovich said.

The defendant, Tracy Lynn Eagleman, aka Tracy Badmoccasin, 36, pleaded guilty in August to interfering with an aircraft in flight.

Chief U.S. District Judge Brian M. Morris presided.

In court documents, the government alleged that on Ma...