Perhaps this will be sobering news for people that like to get drunk on aeroplanes and cause trouble.
A 56 year-old Essex man who did just that on an easyJet flight has been sentenced to 8 months in prison.
He’ll now have a criminal record and is banned from flying with easyJet for life.
Here’s what Martin Johnson got up to on the flight from Bristol to Malaga:
- Drank an entire bottle of duty free wine before boarding
- Threatened to stab the pilot
- Said he would “kill everybody on the plane”
- Hid a second bottle of booze under his seat
- Urinated all over the toilet to the extent that they had to turn the plane round and return
- Caused the flight to be cancelled, delaying 100s of holidaymakers’ trips by an day
Paula Jones, who was sat next to him on the plane, said: “I felt petrified but I kept calm because there was a row of children sat behind us with their teachers.”
Defending himself in court, Johnson said: “I was in the toilet for seven minutes and I heard over the PA system that they were turning the plane back because someone was being violent and disruptive.
“I knew I was going to be arrested so for a minute or so I said things like, ‘that’s out of order’. It was not loud and I wasn’t shouting and I was mumbling to myself.
“This lasted for less than a minute and I wasn’t violent. I swear I never said anything about stabbing anyone and I never used the words “hit a hostess”.”
YouTube is full of videos of drunk people causing problems on flights. In this one below, a Scottish man who sexually assaulted a female cabin crew member, swore and acted aggressively to other passengers on a Glasgow to Turkey flight doesn’t seem to know what country he is in.
