Here’s a crazy story about two passengers acting up on a Thai AirAsia flight from Bangkok to Nanjing this past Thursday, which had to return to Bangkok. Via the Bangkok Post:
Witnesses said the man threatened to blow up the plane and his girlfriend told other passengers she wanted to commit suicide, Charles Liu posted on the Nanfang Insider blog on Friday. Earlier, the couple…
Earlier, the couple were angry when they discovered they were not sitting together, which happened because they were part of a tour group seated in alphabetical order.
A flight attendant accommodated by finding adjoining seats for them, but they still complained loudly, Mr Liu wrote.
During the flight, the woman bought a bowl of instant noodles and asked for boiling water which she splashed on one of the flight attendants.
The Daily Mail has a short video of the passenger apparently making threats:
So what happens when a plane turns around to the origin because you threatened to blow it up and threw hot water at the flight attendant?
Police later took the couple and their two friends to Don Muang police station where they settled the dispute with the flight attendant and the captain. A TAA spokesman said today the Chinese woman was…
A TAA spokesman said today the Chinese woman was allowed to leave Thailand this evening on a TAA flight back to Nanjing after she agreed to pay an undisclosed amount of compensation to the affected cabin…
Oh, Thailand! There’s nothing a bribe can’t get you out of there…
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