Another wacko weekend O.T. post - Man goes berserk on (in air) 747.
He was from Hong Kong. Is Hong Kong now primarily CDMA wireless or non-CDMA wireless ?
January 17, 1999
Man Breaks Window on British Plane
Filed at 8:00 a.m. EST
By The Associated Press
LONDON (AP) -- A man ran through a British Airways Boeing 747 and broke
an inside window before crew and passengers overpowered him, the airline
said Sunday after the man was returned to London and arrested.
British Airways said the incident, on a Thursday flight from London to
Thailand, had shaken the passengers but there had been no danger to the
aircraft.
The pilot had diverted to India ''for the safety of the aircraft,'' and turned the
29-year-old man over to the Indian authorities at New Delhi airport, the airline
said.
The man, a resident of Hong Kong, was held under police guard until airline
security officers picked him up and brought him back to London on Sunday.
The scuffle began seven hours into the 12-hour flight of BA009, which left
London's Heathrow Airport for Bangkok with 395 passengers -- five short of
capacity.
The airline said cabin staff noticed that the man, who was drinking heavily,
was annoying passengers around him. A woman sitting next to him tried to
ignore him by putting on a headset.
The man ripped the earphones from her and bit the headset in half. Cabin
crew found the woman shaking and in tears, and warned the man, but he
jumped up and attacked a passenger near him before racing down to the rear
of the aircraft, the airline said.
There he attempted to punch out the window of the door, striking it so hard
that he broke the inner protective panel and cut his hand badly.
The flight officer left the cockpit and helped three cabin crew and three
passengers overpower the man, who was handcuffed and restrained by seat
belts in the rear of the jet, the airline spokesman said.
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