A Norwegian ship officer drank an entire bottle of liquor and then went amok on a KLM aircraft on its way to
“I can confirm that the man appeared so aggressively against passengers and crews that came to a point where the captain had no choice but to handcuff the passenger “, says KLM’s spokeswoman Marisca Kensenhuis to VG.
The newspaper writes that the man should have emptyed a hole bottle of 60 percent liquor before he went amok during the twelve-hour flight from
“He drank his own liquor, it was very inebriated, and he was harassing both passengers and crews and did not calm down in spite of several warnings, “says Kensenhuis.
Already several hours before landing in
The Norwegian is likely to be punished with a solid penalty. The bad behaviour may also have cost the man the job in a shipping company in
“I can confirm that one of our employees was involved in an episode on that flight, but we will have all the facts and all versions on the table before we comment on the matter, “says the shipping company’s director to VG.
He can therefore neither confirm nor disprove that the officer has been dismissed, but points out that other members of the group who travelled with the man, has referred the case to be a storm in a tumbler.