These guys manage it.
Posted on 03/21/2005 6:52:43 PM PST by bellevuesbest
NEW YORK (AP) -- Prosecutors are investigating the death of a man who was subdued by several fellow airline passengers after he became disruptive on a New York-bound flight, a spokesman said Sunday. William Lee was pronounced dead late Friday after he was removed from the American Airlines flight at Kennedy International Airport. The cause of death had not yet been determined and was under investigation. Lee, 48, of New York, stood up in his seat on American's Flight 4 from Los Angeles and "loudly demanded another beer," airline spokesman Tim Smith said. Flight attendants asked him to wait until they reached his row, Smith said, but the man "got very, very belligerent and loud and disruptive and was told he would not be served any more alcohol." The purser tried to calm him down, but he pushed her aside to get to the aisle, the spokesman said. Seven other male passengers restrained Lee, who was a large man, and they and the flight crew put flexible handcuffs on him and put him back in his seat, Smith said. Lee got out of his seat again and the seven passengers held him on his back on the galley floor until the plane landed, Smith said. He said he had heard reports the men were members of a rugby team but said he couldn't yet confirm that. After the landing, Port Authority police boarded the plane and administered CPR to Lee, who "was in some kind of distress," Smith said.
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This was a CSI plot.
garyhope wrote:
A thousand monkeys at keyboards typing for a hundred years
--> Thanks for bring up this expression, it's one of my favorites and had forgotten about it :)
If the alcohol in his system caused him to vomit, no.
If the alcohol in his system deprived him of the oxygen, no.
If the alcohol in his system contributed to either (to the point neither would ahve been possible without the alcohol) then again, no.
If the team stiffeld him with a pillow, I would go for manslaughter.
Not exactly. Maybe a contributing/ complicating factor if he vomited & aspirated the stuff into his lungs coupled w/ booze depressing respiration. Wonder about the timeline & his blood alcohol content.
http://www.outdoored.com/articles/Article.asp?ArticleID=120
it's called 'Darwinism' :)
Hopefully it will start afflicting a lot of leftist politicians and judges.
Nobody had ever heard of a bucket of ice water? Works wonders when there's no hose handy.
Jeez, they didn't have to kill him, they could have just put him off the airplane.
Mohammed Atta and his 18 psychotic Mohammedean pals ruined it for everyone who wants to act like an ass on an aircraft.
After 911 there is no room for jackass misbehaviour on an airplane, as if there ever was.
It's kind of hard to open the door while in the air.
Sounds like a campaing to make passengers submissive again, and susceptible to another attack.
#2 ... hung jury or not guilty verdicts.
Sure about that, are you?
#2 ... hung jury or not guilty verdicts.
Sure about that, are you?
I knew I forgot something.
Next?
Where are you getting that?
These guys manage it.
I don't think that's a passenger 747.
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