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    • August 5, 2009

    Update: Duct Taped Passenger is Convicted, Could Get 20 Years

    Filed under: Arrested,Crime,Drunk,Passengers,United — anne @ 11:10 am
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    A 50 year old man from Anaheim, California was convicted last week of interfering with a flight crew. But the guy was very lucky — the federal jury deadlocked on the charge of assaulting a crew member.

    The passenger in question was aboard a United flight from Hong Kong to LAX when he got “unruly” (love that word). According an LA Times report, prosecutors said the man “had been drinking and was so belligerent and verbally abusive that crew members, a passenger and [an] off-duty pilot restrained his hands with plastic handcuffs.”

    Which didn’t prevent him from punching the off-duty pilot in the neck when the pilot tried put his hand on the guy’s shoulder to try and keep the raging fellow in his seat. That’s when he was duct taped to his seat. When he started chewing his way out of the duct tape, they brought out metal handcuffs which did the trick.

    He could face 20 years, but prosecutors say he’ll likely get less time — sentencing is in the fall.

    Don’t drink and fly.
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