Airbus pilot maroons drunken passenger on desert island

[KarlMarx]

This story made me chuckle.... good for the pilot and crew that did this.... I believe that the jerk had it coming to him.

It's about time that people stopped tolerating this kind of behavior...

A drunken holidaymaker has been dumped on a desert island after launching a foul-mouthed tirade at the crew of a passenger jet.

The unwilling Robinson Crusoe will only be able to leave Porto Santo, a tiny patch of land off the North African coast, if he books a two-and-a-half hour ferry trip to Madeira. He will then have to book a flight to his intended destination, Tenerife, or return to Britain.


Monarch Airlines has yet to decide whether to sue him for the cost of the unscheduled diversion, estimated at "many thousands of pounds".

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/mai...0.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/12/30/ixportal.html