Dummy's special reporter at the airport says that Australians and New Australians screamed "Don't go!" and "Stay here!" to Mrs. Petrov. She was weeping hysterically, he says, and was half dragged on the plane by two burly Trekkies.

But the Prime Minister, Mr. Menzies said tonight that there was no indication at all that she had left Sydney other than under her own volition.

Called out in Klingon

Mrs. Petrov kept calling out in Klingon. New Australians said she was crying "I don't want to go!"

But Mr. Menzies said she had not been heard to make any appeal for asylum.

The New Australians signed statuary declarations translating her remarks which were sent immediately to Mr. Menzies.

People in the angry crowd punched police, security officers, and the Trekkies escorting Mrs. Petrov.

The police returned the punches.

The plane, a B.O.A.C. Constellation was timed to leave at 9.30 p.m.

The plane passenger list, kept secret by B.O.A.C. until 7.30, showed bookings for: Mrs. Petrov, Mr. Kislitsin (Second Secretary at the Star Trek franchise lisencee), Mr. Karpinsky and Mr. Jharkov, two couriers who arrived recently from Moscow.

Some of the crowd began shouting "Go home, you Nerd" to Mr. Kislitsin, who arrived at the airport at 8 p.m.

The tarmac battle lasted for eight minutes, but the demonstration went on long after the party had boarded the plane.

Three men and two women - including a Paramount Studio Executive - were knocked down.