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NEWS- Passengers Wrestle Drunk to F
- Subject: NEWS- Passengers Wrestle Drunk to F
- From: BurmaJapan@xxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 03 Dec 1997 10:53:00
Passengers Wrestle Drunk to Floor as Plane Lands
Reuters
02-DEC-97
SINGAPORE, Dec 3 (Reuters) -
Passengers wrestled an apparently drunk
Burmese to the floor as he tried to haul the
pilot of a Cathay Pacific jumbo out of his
seat minutes before landing, a newspaper
said on Wednesday.
The economy class passenger, who was
not named, staggered upstairs with a
bottle of whisky to the cockpit deck before
landing in Bangkok, pushing aside three
flight crew before grabbing the British
pilot, the Straits Times said, quoting an
airline spokeswoman.
Three business class passengers on the
upper deck leapt in to help, the
newspaper said.
Charles Adams, 58, a senior United
Parcel Service (UPS) official based in
Singapore, broke a wrist punching the
Burmese as the passengers forced him to
release the pilot and pinned him to the
floor.
The inflight fracas happened on a flight
from Singapore on November 25, the
newspaper said.
It quoted the airline spokeswoman as
saying the co-pilot had been in full control
throughout and the Burmese passenger
was arrested after the plane had landed
safely.
Thai authorities told the newspaper the
suspect was still being questioned on
Tuesday in Bangkok.
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