Meat grinder bomb plot brothers jailed over failed Sydney Airport terror attack

A Sydney man has been jailed for at least 30 years and his brother for at least 27 years over their plot to blow up an Etihad plane with a bomb hidden in a meat grinder.

In 2017, Khaled and Mahmoud Khayat entered a packed Sydney Airport with a bomb concealed inside a luggage bag, planning to carry out a terror attack that would kill hundreds on at Etihad flight leaving Australia.

The plot - which included their older brother Tarek Khayat who fought for Islamic State in Syria - involved blowing up the plane and carrying out a lethal poisonous gas attack.

A bomb hidden in a meat grinder was to be put into the luggage of their unsuspecting brother, Amer Khayat, who was flying to Abu Dhabi.

But the plan was abandoned when the luggage was found to be overweight at Sydney Airport.

Today Khaled, 51, was sentenced to a maximum of 40 years behind bars with a non-parole period of 30, while 34-year-old Mahmoud was handed 36 years, and will be eligible for parole after 27 years.

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- WITH AAP