Passenger who disrupted flight with 'unreasonable demands' should be locked up for years - not 5 days - say Chinese internet users
Lenient treatment handed to man who disrupted public order on three-hour flight won’t deter similar disgraceful behaviour, they say
Chinese internet users have complained that the five-day detention for a flight passenger who disrupted public order on a domestic flight was not harsh enough, a local news website reported.
According to the airline, the male passenger, surnamed Fan, had made several “unreasonable demands” on flight KY8234 from the eastern city of Hangzhou to Kunming, in southern Yunnan province, last Thursday, Kunming Airlines said in a statement on their website.
The man had asked a flight attendant to remove his pants for him after he spilt a beverage on himself, refused to switch off his mobile phone as the plane was taxiing before take-off, and made staff pour him a glass of every beverage choice available, amongst other demands in the three-hour flight, Kunming Airlines said in statement.
Internet users called for the passenger to be blacklisted, saying that the police should “punish the perpetrator to ensure flight safety”, according to the Shanghai-based news website Thepaper.cn.
The airline added that a flight attendant asked the man to change into another set of pants so she could help him clean the dirtied pair.
She refused to help him take off his pants as he requested, and in response, he tossed a cup of juice at her, splashing other passengers in the process and threw a handful of rubbish at another senior flight attendant’s face.
