BA2202 flight passenger Sean Jude Kelly was drunk aboard his flight from Cancun Mexico. Normally, he is a moneybroker from Kent. But after a week in Cancun drinking, he became a hooligan.
On the flight home, he started threatening (278) passengers.
Three hours after taking off from Cancun, the British Airways captain detoured to Orlando Florida, where Kelly was arrested (before or after?) attacking a female Orlando police officer. Kelly is now being held in jail.
Flight attendants said Kelly spat at them, and fought other passengers. He drank half a 750ml bottle of Stolichnaya Vodka aboard the plane, and prior to boarding had taken anti-anxiety meds.
Speaking from my fantastic hotel in Cancun…
There’s plenty of rest and relaxation to be had in Cancun without spending the week in a bottle…
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Philippe Jernnard was wearing an Air France shirt, a fake Air France badge, had an Air France bag and was carrying a falsified an Air France ID card when he boarded a US Airways Philadelphia-West Palm Beach flight.
Instead of taking his seat in coach, he asked if there was room in first class, then seated himself on the cockpit’s jump seat.
The impersonation attempt began after Jernnard was denied an upgrade to business class.
When the captain told Jernnard he hadn’t filled out the paperwork and had to return to his seat, Jernnard argued.
The argument led to authorities being called, and they took him into custody.
He is charged with criminal trespass, tampering with records, impersonating a person privately employed and false ID to law enforcement. Jernnard is a French citizen.
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After unruly behavior on a Sunwing Airlines flight from Halifax Canada to the Dominican Republic, a family was arrested, and appeared in Bermuda court Monday.
Sunwing may bring charges against the family for the cost of diverting the plane. ($50,000) The plane was examined in Bermuda after landing and continued to the Dominican Republic a day late. Sunwing is banning the family from every flying their airline again.
The son allegedly smoked in the bathroom, then a disagreement between his family and flight attendants ensued. Pilots landed in Bermuda and the family was arrested.
David McNeil Jr denied smoking on the plane and the charge was dropped, but the father, David McNeil Sr. pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct and the mother, Donna McNeil pleaded guilty to disobeying a lawful order from a flight attendant. The parents were sentenced to either a $500 fine or 10 days in prison. The son was free to go. Raw Video below
Two drunk women caused a British Airways flight Gatwick to Tunis flight to divert to Lyon. At 30,000 feet, the women smoked in the bathroom, and exhibited disruptive behavior, refusing to sit, attempting to get into the cockpit, and threatening to “track down and kill” the family of a BA stewardess.
They were arrested in Lyon, where gendarmes tossed them in the drunk tank overnight, and sent them back.
British Airways may ban them from flying BA flights.
What: Egyptair Airbus A320-200 en route from Cairo to Kuwait Where: Egypt When: Dec 3, 2012 Who: 90 aboard Why: We have avoided this report for as long as possible, but finally decided to get it out of the way, since our mailboxes and emails are FULL of reports of: “Snake on a plane forces emergency landing”
“Cobra Forces EgyptAir Flight to Make Emergency Landing”
“Flight Crew Finds reptile”
“Real Life Snake on a plane”
“Egyptian Cobra Bites Akram Abdul Latfi, Egypt Air Passenger”
“Cobra upgraded to First Class on Flight**”
Here’s the story: Akram Abdul Latif who was aboard this Egyptair flight was bitten by a snake. Actual snake on a plane, not the terrible movie. The Jordan Times says the snake was a cobra and that Latif owns a reptile shop where he was taking it. The snake had gotten out and the pet shop owner was bitten in the hand while trying to return the snake to the carry-on (as so many are theoretically and realistically bitten while trying to get anything back in the bag.)
The flight was diverted to Al Bahr Al Ahmar where first aid was administered to the man, and apparently none to the snake, who died. Actually, the snake did not die; it apparently was with Latif when he was refusing medical treatment. Some of the reports infer Latif was allowed to bring the snake to his shop in Kuwait. Without a crystal ball, I can’t say whether or not reports will be full of “Kuwait Reptile Store Owner Jailed for Smuggling” but according to “Newsfix” the cobra was corralled and confiscated by the cops. No one indicates if the snake was returned to Latif, or if a snake license, fine or a “snake coralling fee” was levied.
One can not help but picture the plane landing, a bouncer tossing Latif, his bag and beast out on their respective keisters*, the plane closing up and zipping down the runway before Latif can get back on.
* For the sake of the paragraph, we are endowing both the snake and the bag with honorary keisters, as they are not provided their own by nature.
** Honors for the best title of an article about the snake on a plane
*** The snake photo is clipped from the youtube video
**** No snakes were harmed in the writing of this article
*****[insert your own] Etc.
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What: Thomson flight en route to Lanzarote Where: Portugal Who: disruptive teen Why: Seventeen year old Lee Doran from London was traveling with his step father to Lanzarote when he got into an altercation.
After he and his stepfather got into a fight, the pilot landed in Portugal, dropping off Doran, half-brother Dylan, stepfather David Laughton, his partner Sarah Wilson, and their son Harry. The family caught the next flight to Lanzarote, leaving Lee at the airport police station. Between the British Embassy and Lee’s mother, he managed to get back home (to London.)
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What: Jetblue Airbus A320-200 en route from New York to Los Angeles Where: Denver When: Aug 19 2012 Who: one disorderly Why: On August 22, Marcus Covington was charged with abusive sexual contact and interference with flight crew members and attendants.
The August 19 flight where the infraction occurred was en route from NY to LA. The Captain diverted to Denver after Covington groped a pregnant woman, argued with flight attendants, and was taken into custody by a special agent who was aboard the flight. Covington, who had been seen taking eight pills of some kind, accosted the pregnant woman near the restroom.
The complaint says “He then ran his hands up the front of her body going from her crotch up to her breasts. He started with the back of his hands, but turned his hands with his palms facing her as he ran his hands over her breasts. She pushed him away and she got behind the flight attendant that had come up behind her. She then went into the lavatory where she remained crying for approximately five minutes.”
Andrew Alessi was in an accident Interstate 10 and wanted police to kill him; then he bought a ticket, cleared security and when the flight was open for staff to get on board to clean the plane, stormed into the American Eagle jet just ahead of pursuit where he locked himself in the impregnable cockpit. No passengers were aboard.
The ground crew disconnected the batteries so he couldn’t start the airplane. After three hours, FBI negotiators talked him out. Alessi was put into lockdown after being taken into custody by Baton Rouge Police and faces charges. Video Below
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What: Spirit Airlines Airbus A319 en route from Los Angeles to Fort Lauderdale Where: Houston When: July 8, 2012 Who: 100+ passengers Why: After a disruption aboard the flight, the pilots diverted the Spirit Airlines flight to Houston, where they made a safe landing. Passengers who disembarked had no Spirit Airlines counter because, although flights are soon scheduled to begin landing there, currently there is no Spirit Airlines Customer Service at Houston Intercontinental Airport.
On arrival, the disruptive passenger was handed left in the custody of Houston Law Enforcement.
The disruptive passenger was an elderly blind frenchman in his eighties who had become disoriented and frightened. His son was called by authorities.
Passengers reboarded the flight and departed Houston at 6:42 PM.
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What: Tianjin Airlines Embraer ERJ-190 en route from Hotan to Urumqi Where: Hotan When: Jun 29th 2012 Who: 9 crew, 92 passengers Why: Right after takeoff, six passengers on the flight announced a hijacking.
Apparently three were in the front of the plane, and three were in the back.
Passengers and Sky Marshals subdued the hijackers.
Two flight police officers were seriously injured. Two attendants and seven passengers were slightly injured. The six who attempted to hijack the flight were taken into police custody when the captain returned to the airport within sixteen minutes of takeoff.
b>In George’s Point of View
What a tragic, yet heroic story.
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What: US Airways/ Air Wisconsin Canadair CRJ-200 en route from Portland Maine to Philadelphia Where: Boston When: May 10th 2012 Who: 50 passengers and 3 crew Why: A passenger with a history of seizures and on medication attempted to open the door while en route.
The disruptive passenger was caught by a flight attendant, who stopped him. He told her he was going to the bathroom. The attendant led him to a seat in the rear of the plane where state police found him. Other passengers may have been upset or frightened by the incident, but under normal conditions, it’s not physically possible to open the door while in flight anyway.
Pilots diverted the flight to Boston where the disruptive passenger was offloaded, presumably by gentlemen in white coats.
Michael Ensalaco, 40, of Mooresville, N.C was charged with interfering with a flight crew. His lawyer explained that his seizure disorder is similar to sleep walking.
In George’s Point of View
While a medical event should not be handled in the same way as a malicious act, perhaps someone with this tendency should not fly, or else they should not sleep during the flight, and also be obligated to inform the flight crew ahead of time. It could happen to anyone taking Ambien!
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What: PIA Pakistan International Airlines Avion de Transport Regional ATR-42-500 en route from Karachi to Bahawalpur Where: Karachi When: Apr 27th 2012 Who: Belligerent Passenger, 52 aboard Why: While en route, economy class passenger Javed Ansari had words with a flight attendant. Those words included threats that sounded like hijack attempts to someone. The passenger told authorities that he “hurled a threat after a quarrel with attendants Sadaf Mansoor and Mehreen Fatima, but had no intention to hijack the aircraft.” Ansari was offloaded in Karachi and escorted away by Airport Security Force commandos and handed off to police. The flight was delayed almost three hours.
Xinhua news reported that Urdu TV channel ARY News said Ansari followed the attendants into the cockpit and asked the captain to divert the flight. This was reported as a foiled hijack attempt, where the pilot tricked the hijacker by claiming the plane had to return to Karachi for an emergency landing. Ansari says he was “joking.”
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Clayton Osbon is not the first Osbon to have cause to fear a plane. Osbon, the Jet Blue pilot who recently had an on-the-job meltdown (described as erratic, bizarre, disturbing behavior) while piloting an Airbus from New York to Las Vegas lost his father in a Daytona Beach plane crash in 1995. Maybe his father’s death had something to do with Osbon’s March 27 mid-flight breakdown. Osbon’s panic attack led to him being tackled outside the cockpit and handcuffed as the quick-thinking co-pilot Jason Dowd and another Jet Blue pilot who happened to be aboard diverted the flight to Amarillo.
Before he left the cockpit, Captain Osbon, a captain since 1989, began ranting to Jason Dowd about Flight 191’s destination, threatening to crash the plane rather than fly into the den of iniquity that is Las Vegas.
Osbon has been charged with interfering with the flight crew. He has been suspended from his job, and is charged with interfering with the flight crew. He faces 20 years (max) in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Nothing in his history relates to his breakdown. Osbon is described by his friends and peers as a “consummate professional.” He is a war vet who is suffering from post traumatic stress disorder.
What: Jetblue Airbus A320-200 en route from New York to Las Vegas Where: Amarillo When: March 27 2012 Who: 1 medical emergency, 135 passengers, six crew Why: While en route, the pilot of the JetBlue Airbus suffered a panic attack, and had to be locked out of the cabin and forcibly restrained.
What: United Boeing 737-800 en route from Portland to Houston Where: Portland When: Feb 21st 2012 Who: 1 unruly passenger Why: Twenty minutes after departing, the flight was back in Portland dropping off Yazeed Mohammed Abunayyan, after he had taken a swing at a flight attendant, and hit several passengers prior to being subdued and handcuffed. The Saudi Arabian passenger was yelling profanities, and chanting about Osama bin Laden and his hatred of women.
A relative says Abunayyan suffers from schizophrenia. The cousin, Fahad Alsubaie who was accompanying Yazeed said he was escorted off the plane too, and that the disruption began after a flight attendant confronted the two for sitting together.
Last Sunday Abunayyan led police on a slow-speed chase in the Southern Oregon town Sunday, ramming two police cars and nearly hitting a pedestrian, charged with drunken driving and assaulting an officer and was released on bail Monday. The cousin was there too, trying to stop the car by taking the keys.
Abunayyan said that the “other person inside me” was driving.
Continental bans the use of electronic, simulated smoking materials
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What: TAM Linhas Aereas Airbus A320-200 en route from Montevideo to Sao Paulo Where: Porto Alegre When: Feb 11th 2012 Who: 1 unruly passenger Why: A Tam airbus was en route when a passenger intruded into the cockpit. The pilot yelled for help, and the plane veered sharply to the right. The cockpit door was open. Some reports of the incident mention that the passenger had a TAM badge. (Some Uraguan accounts say the individual was flying in the cockpit on a jumpseat.)
Passengers talked about the incident feeling like a September 911 film.
The pilot diverted to Porto Alegre and made a safe landing. A number of passengers and possibly the two flight attendants were injured in the altercation. The passenger was taken into police custody, and he was incarcerated in the psychiatric ward of a local hospital for having suffered a “psychotic episode.”
The flight reached Sao Paulo nearly three hours late.
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What: Avianca en route from Costa Rica to Medellin Where: Medellin When: January 19, 2012 Who: unruly passenger Why: The flight was en route when a disruptive passenger disturbed the flight, attempting to breach the cockpit. He was restrained by fellow passengers.
After landing at Jose Maria Cordova the disruptive passenger was taken into custody. The passenger’s identity was not confirmed.
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What: Delta Boeing 757 en route from Atlanta to Costa Rica Where: Tampa International Airport When: January 15, 2011 7:34 p.m Who: 2 unruly passengers Why: When Peter and Gabriele Strohmaier of Dusseldorf, Germany demanded champagne and food and refused to sit down, pilots made an emergency stop in Tampa and dropped them off.
What: Air Canada flight en route from Toronto to Beijing Where: Vancouver Who: George Campbell of Conestogo and 38-year-old Paul Alexander Wilson Why: The two, both apparently employed by RIM, (Research in Motion, the company that introduced the Blackberry in 1999), were suspended after their drunkenness aboard an Air Canada flight forced pilots to divert to Vancouver. The two alleged drunks were also held responsible in paying Air Canada over &70,000 in hotel fees and restitution for delaying the flight.
What: American Airlines flight Where: LAX When: Dec 6 2011 Who: Alex Baldwin Why: Refusing to stop playing the game “words with friends,” Alex Baldwin was ejected from an American Airlines flight by an irate flight attendant. It was waiting at the gate (not in the air.)
He was rebooked on another flight, but not without attempting twitter revenge, badmouthing American Airlines, and also filing a complaint against a flight attendant who was like a “retired Catholic school gym teacher from the 1950’s.”
Baldwin is not the only individual we heard about this week who was removed from a plane due to conduct, but the others were taken to a mental unit or released into police custody.
What: WESTJET en route from Vancouver to Toronto Where: Thunder Bay, Ontario When: December 3, 2011 5 pm Who: 118 passengers Why: A Westjet Boeing 737 was en route when a Portuguese passenger made what seemed to be bomb threats.
The flight diverted to Thunder bay. The passengers disembarked, and the disturbed passenger, a former mental patient, was taken into custody and hospitalized.
The plane was examined and no explosives were found. Passengers were able to resume their flight on December 4.
What: KLM Boeing 777-200, registration PH-BQB en route from Johannesburg to Amsterdam Where: Amsterdam When: Nov 25th 2011 Who: one passenger Why: While en route, a thirty-one year old male passenger believed to be under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol became unruly. After harassing other passengers, the passenger ignored warnings of the crew, attempted to open the plane’s emergency exit and cockpit. He was subdued, and on landing in Amsterdam, was handed over to military police.
What: Westjet flight en route from Toronto to Vancouver Saturday morning. Where: Kelowna International Airport, BC When: October 8 2011m 9:00 am Who: unruly passenger Why: A passenger who disappeared into the washroom came out and became “erratic.” He refused to sit, and began yelling that he believed that someone had stolen his money. The pilot made an emergency landing at Kelowna International Airport where the man was escorted off of the plane by Mounties before the flight continued to Vancouver. The man’s luggage was searched and nothing was found. He eventually booked a flight out of town.
Maybe he’s just a disoriented whacko, but the question is…what if this guy’s money really was stolen?
Convicted of being drunk on an aircraft, and sentenced at Isleworth Crown Court in west London on September 23 after getting drunk on beer and bourbon with friends in Phoenix, and drunker aboard a British Airways Phoenix-London Boeing, Mortgage consultant Timothy Bradley propositioned a woman, shouted, verbally threatened the pilot, and brandished glass.
Judge Richard McGregor-Johnson was not amused.
In business class, no less.
He was arrested when flight 288 arrived at Heathrow.
He’s paying for it now, and is one month into his three month sentence.
I only have one thing to say to Timothy Bradley (who may have to look into another line of work when he gets out.)
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain
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What: Thomson Boeing 767-300, en route from Manchester to to Punta Cana Dominican Republic Where: Bermuda When: Occurred:Nov 5th 2010
Sentenced: Aug 19th 2011 Who: 45 year old British Citizen Why: While Charity worker Carol Close’s flight had been delayed for 30 hours in Manchester with technical problems, the depressed woman passed the time by drinking beer and two mixed drinks. Probably not a good idea.
Six hours into the November 5, 2010 flight, the woman attacked her husband and other individuals aboard the flight. Her husband moved to another seat to get away from her, and Close then bit and kicked a flight attendant (or two) who attempted to restrain her. Then she started yelling.
The captain diverted to Bermuda where Carol Close was arrested.
On Aug 19th 2011, Close pleaded guilty to “two charges of assault and one of affray.”
British Court sentenced her to a suspended 6-months jail term, £2700 British Pounds. (£200 compensation to cabin crew, plus £2,476 to Bermuda Police)
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What: Gazpromavia Boeing 737-700 en route from Moscow to Nadym Where: Nadym When: Jun 16th 2011 Who: 51 passengers and 5 crew Why: Unruly passenger had hallucinations, threatened airline crew, claimed his phone was a bomb, etc. Emergency services met the flight when it landed and took the passenger off their hands, where he was taken to a mental hospital and diagnosed with “alcoholic hallucinosis.”
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