A 46 year-old man had to be forcibly taped to his seat when he became drunk and unruly on an Icelandair flight Thursday.
Ktla.com reports:
‘According to witnesses, the unidentified man spit on passengers and the flight crew and was screaming that “the plane was going to crash.” The man was “hitting, screaming and spitting at other passengers, while yelling profanities,” according to airline spokesman Michael Raucheisen, who said the passenger’s “behavior was considered to be unruly and threatening.” “To ensure the safety of those on board, he was restrained by passengers and crew and was monitored for his own safety for the duration of the flight,” he added. The man was arrested after the flight arrived at JFK, the airline said.’
Incident: Lufthansa A343 near Recife on Oct 5th 2012, unruly passengers
By Simon Hradecky, created Saturday, Oct 6th 2012 16:27Z, last updated Saturday, Oct 6th 2012 16:27ZA Lufthansa Airbus A340-300, registration D-AIFC performing flight LH-505 from Sao Paulo,SP (Brazil) to Munich (Germany), was enroute near Recife,PE (Brazil) when the crew requested assistance by strong men to subdue 3 drunk passengers, who had demanded more alcohol and upon being refused more alcohol engaged in a shouting match with cabin crew at first, then one of them attempted to clutch the flight attendant's wrist while another one began to exchange punches with a fourth member of the group who had tried to calm the drunks down. The three were subdued with the assistance of other passengers and handcuffed, the aircraft diverted to Recife for a safe landing. Brazilian police took the three drunks into custody.
The aircraft reached Munich with a delay of 3 hours.
Police reported the unrulies had consumed considerable amounts of alcohols and were considerably intoxicated already before boarding the aircraft and had consumed some more alcohol on board. One of them threw up during the flight and walked the aisle annoying other passengers, another one assaulted a flight attendant and the third engaged in a fist fight with a fourth companion trying to calm the three down.
The airline confirmed the diversion due to bad behaviour of some passengers.
Actor Gerard Depardieu Pees on Air France Plane as In-Cabin Urination Epidemic Spreads to Europe
By: Matt Molnar
French movie star Gerard Depardieu reportedly relieved himself in the cabin of an Air France flight from Paris to Dublin on Tuesday.
Air France Flight 5010, operated by a dual-restroom-equipped CityJet Avro RJ-85, was taxiing for departure when the star of such films as Green Card and The Man in the Iron Mask announced “I want to piss, I want to piss.”
A flight attendant told the “visibly inebriated” Depardieu that he could use the lavatory in about 15 minutes once the plane had reached cruising altitude.
He responded by standing up and urinating on the floor. He then sat back down.
The plane was forced to return to the gate for a good scrubbing, but there is no word on whether Depardieu was booted off the flight or arrested, as he almost certainly would have been in the U.S.
A Manhattan financial consultant was kicked off a JetBlue flight at JFK Airport because the pilot mistakenly thought she wasn't wearing pants or shorts, according to her lawsuit.
VIP Passenger Syndrome or Crashing for not using English?
Here are two articles on the accident that killed the President of Poland together with 95 people, including the crew.
'VIP passenger syndrome' may have contributed to Polish plane crash
The role of the Polish president in the air crash in which he and 95 others died has been called into question amid suggestions he many have put pressure on the pilot to land despite bad weather warnings.
Andrew Osborn in Moscow and Matthew Day in Warsaw
Published: 8:18PM BST 12 Apr 2010
A Russian serviceman stands guard near the engine of the crashed Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft Photo: AFP/GETTY
One of the Russian air traffic controllers involved in the tragedy said he believes the Polish air force pilot Arkadiusz Protasiuk, 36, was under severe pressure 'to land at any cost' so that the president would not miss the commemoration of the death of 22,000 Poles slaughtered by Stalin.
But he claims there were also serious language problems between the control tower at the military airport near Smolensk and the crew as the aircraft began its descent, and final approach, 'without our permission'.
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