Pizza Hut workers David Sneath, 25, and Patrick Grigor, 24, climbed a fence to get into Dundee Airport, a court heard. The pair were given a deferred sentence for one year to be on good behaviour. Dundee Sheriff Court heard the men had been in a nightclub before walking to the airport, climbing a security fence and entering a hangar.
They discharged a fire extinguisher over five planes, causing £8,400 worth of damage and grounding them until safety checks were carried out. An airport security officer found the pair in the controlled area on 20 May 2009, looking into the cockpit of a plane with one of them covered from head to toe in white powder.
They admitted entering the restricted zone and "maliciously" discharging a fire extinguisher over five aircraft, covering them in a noxious substance and rendering them unsafe to operate.
Speaking after his court appearance, Grigor said: "There was no malice intended. We had both been on a work night out and after we left the Students' Union at 2.30am, we must have gone for a drunken walk, perhaps looking for a party.
"We have no real recollection of how we got to the airport, how we got in, or what really happened. At first the police mentioned something about terrorism. The day after, when we got interviewed and we had sobered up, they realised it was just a couple of drunken idiots."
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