A noted Belgian photographer yesterday focused his anger on a flight attendant on a plane to Kennedy Airport and then made a “terrorist threat” against the pilot, authorities said.
Jan De Cock, 34 — who had an exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art two years ago — was on a Delta flight from Brussels when he allegedly began twirling the cord of his headset in the aisle.
That earned him a stern rebuke from the flight attendant, who warned him that his actions might injure other passengers.
“I could kill the pilot with these,” De Cock allegedly replied, gesturing with his headset cord as if it were a garrote, said one law-enforcement source.
After the jet touched down, De Cock was questioned by members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, but both the feds and local authorities declined to prosecute.