Drunk Norwegian amok in air
A drunken Norwegian terrorized fellow passengers aboard a flight from Bangkok to Copenhagen, hitting a stewardess and going on a rampage that not even tranquilizers could control, newspaper Dagbladet reports.
The 40-year-old man seemed normal enough when boarding flight TG 950 to Copenhagen, but after an hour in the air he went completely berserk. With ten hours left before landing, the drunken Norwegian began his frightening tirade.
"He wanted to get out of the plane at an altitude of 10 kilometers (32,800 feet) and hit a stewardess. There is no doubt the passengers were terrified. Because he was so noisy and violent many of them noticed the disturbance," said police inspector Carsten Holder at Copenhagen's Kastrup Airport.
The crew tried to calm the man but this only made him more violent.
"Suddenly he threw himself towards the emergency exit. He grabbed the handle and tried to open the door," a passenger told the newspaper Expressen.
The crew and a few passengers joined in the struggle to get the inebriated man away from the door, and four or five people were needed to get control.
A doctor was requested over the plane's loudspeakers and a Danish physician gave the berserk Norwegian a tranquilizing injection.
"It's possible the shot helped a little, but it couldn't have been much. In any case the Norwegian must have been extremely drunk because he just kept yelling and fighting," Holder said.
Finally the crew handcuffed the violent drunk and bound him to a chair using plastic strips. When he refused to stop shouting and screaming, they stuffed his mouth full of paper and tied this in place using a strap around his neck.
Fearing further violence, the crew refused to release the man to use the toilet, leaving him strapped into his seat for about ten hours.
"He was pretty wet when the plane landed," Holder told Dagbladet.
Upon landing the unusually difficult passenger was charged with endangering the lives of fellow passengers and assaulting a stewardess.
The man told police he remembered nothing about the trip, except being fed like a baby by a stewardess at one point.
The passenger was turned over to Norwegian police after blood samples were taken.
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"they stuffed his mouth full of paper and tied this in place using a strap around his neck."...and....."He was pretty wet when the plane landed,"
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