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Telegraph said:
Airbus pilot maroons drunken passenger on desert island
By Nigel Bunyan
(Filed: 30/12/2005)
A drunken holidaymaker has been dumped on a desert island after launching a foul-mouthed tirade at the crew of a passenger jet.
The unwilling Robinson Crusoe will only be able to leave Porto Santo, a tiny patch of land off the North African coast, if he books a two-and-a-half hour ferry trip to Madeira. He will then have to book a flight to his intended destination, Tenerife, or return to Britain.
Monarch Airlines has yet to decide whether to sue him for the cost of the unscheduled diversion, estimated at "many thousands of pounds".
The unnamed passenger's difficulties began on Tuesday evening at 35,000 ft when he began abusing the cabin crew of flight ZB558 from Manchester. He refused to calm down and then turned his attention to the other 210 passengers.
Eventually the pilot decided that he posed a risk to safety and had to be removed.
Rather than continue for a further 45 minutes to Tenerife he diverted his Airbus A321 to Porto Santo. Within moments of the plane touching down the passenger was escorted to the terminal. Last night he remained a castaway on the Portuguese-controlled island. His New Year home is a mere 10 miles long by three miles wide with a population of 4,000. There is little entertainment apart from walking on the sand dunes.
Porto Santo's only cultural claim to fame is to have been the place where Christopher Columbus met his wife, the then governor's daughter.
Jo Robertson, of Monarch, refused to name the drunken passenger. She said that he was asked to sign a form admitting his disruptive behaviour, but had refused.
Despite enduring a four-hour delay, other passengers were "fully supportive" of the decision to dump the man.
Last night it was unclear either how or when he would return to Britain.
"He certainly won't be flying back with us," said Miss Robertson.
AlexH said:
Good work Monarch!
Part of me does think its a shame they actually landed before pushing him out...
LOL, that's what I thought too! Pity they can't eject the scum, complete with dodgy parachute (scum pays for chute beforehand, if he can't, oh well) Zero tolorance for scum like this is the only way to go.
eccles said:
as far as i can make out he was being verbally abusive....so i wonder which bit of being verbal can be constituted as being a danger to the aircraft!
Yeah that's gotta be very abusive and threatening I would imagine for a pilot to change course. The passengers should have got together and beaten the crap outta him, much more satisfying.
eccles said:
as far as i can make out he was being verbally abusive....so i wonder which bit of being verbal can be constituted as being a danger to the aircraft!
People paid good money to travel in peace and quiet, had a fight started in the plane it would have constituted a danger to the aircraft.
I applaud the pilot's decision anyway, well done!
eccles said:
how does a fight constitute a danger to the aircraft?....a danger to fellow passengers and cabin crew maybe....but a fight is not going to cause a plane to crash or be in danger of crashing!
You are taking the piss, right?
Stewards and Stewardesses are not just trolly dollies, they are there for your safety first. So the t
t has a fight with a fellow passenger and the escape hatch gets opened/dislodged - not a danger? Fighting raises adrenaline, making the person more aggressive, more aggression = danger to me.
believe me...you wont be opening an escape door or ordinary door in flight on a pressurised airliner!
once again, it the wording /exscuse i find odd, yes he's a danger to other passengers and cabin crew, but he's not a direct threat to the aircraft, i cant think of one thing he could do in the cabin that would directly affect the ability of the aircraft to fly.
once again, it the wording /exscuse i find odd, yes he's a danger to other passengers and cabin crew, but he's not a direct threat to the aircraft, i cant think of one thing he could do in the cabin that would directly affect the ability of the aircraft to fly.
benyeats said:
People like this should be banned from airplanes full stop!
He will be banned from Monarch now, not sure how it works between airlines but would be pretty surprised if they did not share data.
Ben
I'm pretty sure there's a central database somewhere where he now has a black mark against his name/passport#, so should he try to fly again, it'll come up.
A friend of mine in uni worked part time in a travel agents and said they had the ability to enter information about you into the booking system (ie: requires assistance boarding, could be difficult to deal with, etc...), which will pop up on screen to check-in staff as you check in.
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