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  • Airline Abandons Drunk Passenger on Island

    12/29/2005 10:58:04 PM PST · by Loud Mime · 19 replies · 927+ views
    BBC ^ | 12/29/2005 | unknown
    A drunken air passenger was cast away on an island more than 1,000 miles from home after abusing cabin staff. The unidentified man swore at crew and passengers after being refused a bottle of wine on the four-hour flight from Manchester to Tenerife. He became so abusive the fed-up pilot diverted the Monarch Airlines Airbus to Porto Santo island off West Africa. After the plane touched down, the man was marched off by police and had his luggage dumped on the tarmac.
  • Airbus pilot maroons drunken passenger on desert island

    12/29/2005 6:55:35 PM PST · by jdm · 50 replies · 1,654+ views
    Telegraph UK ^ | December 30, 2005 | Nigel Bunyan
    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...