A Beautiful Story
I hope this pilot gets a huge bonus:
A drunken holidaymaker has been dumped on a desert island after launching a foul-mouthed tirade at the crew of a passenger jet.
The unnamed passenger’s difficulties began on Tuesday evening at 35,000 ft when he began abusing the cabin crew of flight ZB558 from Manchester. He refused to calm down and then turned his attention to the other 210 passengers.
Eventually the pilot decided that he posed a risk to safety and had to be removed.
Rather than continue for a further 45 minutes to Tenerife he diverted his Airbus A321 to Porto Santo. Within moments of the plane touching down the passenger was escorted to the terminal. Last night he remained a castaway on the Portuguese-controlled island. His New Year home is a mere 10 miles long by three miles wide with a population of 4,000. There is little entertainment apart from walking on the sand dunes.
Simply wonderful.
Happy New Year, doofus 🙂
December 30, 2005 8:48 am 
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I hope the pilot didn’t quite come to a full stop.
Hope his backstroke is what it used to be in college…
Should have used a parachute on the drunken sot.
Yeah. Upside his head.