Air Rage - worst ever case?
fox1
LONDON, May 28 (AFP) - A passenger who went berserk on a packed
long-haul flight after stewards asked him to stop looking at
pornography on a lap top computer was jailed for three years by a
London court on Friday.
In what the prosecution termed the "worst ever case of
air-rage", South-African born Ian Bottomley, 36, injured three
stewards, caused 30,000 pounds (48,000 dollars, 46,000 euros) damage
and even invited a former soldier trying to restrain him to "step
outside", seven miles above the African jungle.
Stewards on the British Airways Johannesburg to Heathrow flight
last January finally overpowered him after a violent struggle.
For other passengers' safety he was handcuffed, gagged, strapped
down and sedated but the seats in front of him still had to be
wrenched from their fittings to stop him repeatedly trying to head
butt them.
Bottomley, who denied being drunk during the flight, said he
acted in "self-defence."
"I thought they were going to kill me ... I resisted -- it was a
survival instinct," he told an unconvinced jury.
beaver
port.zetnet.co.uk> writes
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>LONDON, May 28 (AFP) - A passenger who went berserk on a packed
>long-haul flight after stewards asked him to stop looking at
>pornography on a lap top computer was jailed for three years by a
>London court on Friday.
The git also claimed to have very poor vision - how did he manage to
look at the porno?
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beaver