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26 JANUARY: WASHINGTON DC, USA Off duty British Airways flight attendants, en route from London to Washington, allegedly became intoxicated on champagne and red wine and started kissing each other and disturbing sleeping passengers prompting numerous complaints.
1 FEBRUARY: BERMUDA A Sunwing flight en route from Halifax Stanfield International Airport to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic, diverted to Bermuda after David MacNeil, 54, his wife Donna, 52, and their son, David, 22, were caught smoking and became verbally abusive to the crew.
2 FEBRUARY: TOKYO, JAPAN Reports emerge that an off duty British Airways captain allegedly groped a First Class female passenger, who was seated next to her husband, on a flight from London to Tokyo. The Captain was later suspended by the airline.
3 FEBRUARY: TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN An Aeroflot flight en route from Russia to Phuket diverted due to a fight on board.
4 FEBRUARY: MOSCOW, RUSSIA Vladimir Popov allegedly hit a police officer at Moscow’s Domodedovo Airport.
4 FEBRUARY: NEWCASTLE, UK Alexander Bolam, 23, stole four lifejackets from an easyJet flight he was taking from Bristol to Newcastle. He was intoxicated at the time and the theft was only discovered when air hostesses checked under the seats before the next flight. Bolam is reported to have committed the offence while subject to a suspended sentence for harassing a neighbour by spraying an offensive word on her doorstep and repeatedly kicking the door before assaulting two police officers. Bolam was fined £180 for the easyJet theft, with £50 costs and a £20 victim surcharge and had his suspended sentence extended by six months.
7 FEBRUARY: DUBLIN, EIRE
Five football fans who had travelled to Dublin to support the Polish national team were arrested after they became violent at Dublin Airport before their planned return journey.
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14 FEBRUARY: BEIJING, CHINA Six first-class Chinese passengers had to be removed from a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight after they refused to put on their seat belts and refused to turn off their mobile phones.
19 FEBRUARY: KUNMING, CHINA Yan Linkun was caught on camera throwing a temper tantrum and smashing an airport check-in counter after he missed his flight.
8 FEBRUARY: ATLANTA, GEORGIA Joe Rickey Hundley, 60, allegedly slapped a 19-month-old boy who wouldn't stop crying on a Delta Airlines flight from Minneapolis to Atlanta. The child started to cry because of the change in cabin pressure. Hundley is reported to have told the boy’s mother to “shut that n****r baby up" before slapping the boy causing a scratch below the boy's right eye.
10 FEBRUARY: KUNMING, CHINA A group of 20 to 30 passengers attempted to rush the departure gate and forcibly board a Lucky Air flight to Nanjing after they were told that the flight had been cancelled due to bad weather. Airport police had to use pepper spray to control the crowd.
22 FEBRUARY: WUHAN, CHINA Two Chinese men on an Air France flight en route from Paris to Wuhan allegedly snatched eight bottles of wine from the airline service cart, despite the objections from other travellers on board.
2 MARCH: MANAMA, BAHRAIN A Nepalese man was stopped from boarding a flight to Kathmandu due to his intoxicated state. Upset at the detention, the man stripped off his clothes in protest.
2 MARCH: SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA A female passenger was restrained and deplaned after a scuffle with a male flight attendant on a JetBlue flight from Long Beach to Sacramento.
21 MARCH: HAINAN, CHINA
After a Hong Kong Airlines flight had been held on the tarmac for six hours at Sanya Airport, one frustrated passenger physically and verbally attacked one of the flight attendants. Some of the passengers are alleged to have clapped and cheered the assault, whilst others pulled the assailant away. Surprisingly, once the passenger was reseated, he was allowed to remain on board for the flight.
21 MARCH: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA Xzibit, a US rapper, allegedly argued with a flight attendant on board a US Airways flight to Los Angeles when she tried to stop him using the toilets as the seat belt sign was illuminated. The police were called to meet the aircraft but no action was taken. Xzibit revealed the story himself via Twitter: “Apparently, you loose [sic] all of your rights as soon as the cabin door is closed. The flight attendant probably had no idea who Xzibit was and that he had the power to get on Twitter and make it known who’s [sic] airline to stay away from! Woops! But it shouldn’t matter if you’re Xzibit or a regular Joe, anyone who paid for a ticket deserves to be treated with respect, period.” He also tweeted: “Ha_ flight attendant on US air tried to get me arrested. I told her to f**k herself. Cops showed up and took a pics [sic] with me. She was pissed.” and “Man. I can't wait to get home. And do me a favor, dont EVER book me on US AIR again. They treat people like dogs and prisoners.”
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