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Jul 1, 05, 2:14 pm
Blind Drunk Scholar Casts Off Academic Restraint
Police have booked an academic with a leading Korean university for causing a drunken disturbance aboard an aircraft after the inebriated scholar threw crockery and attempted to barge into the cockpit.
Police at Incheon International Airport on Friday said a 46-year-old professor of administration with a university in Seoul on Wednesday boarded a Korean Air flight from Jakarta, Indonesia, where he had been on a business trip. The professor, identified by his family name of Chung, was already steaming when he took his business-class seat and proceeded to guzzle two glasses of champagne, two glasses of white wine and two glasses of red wine, all within an hour.
When flight attendants refused Chung’s continuing request for booze on the grounds that excessive in-flight drinking was dangerous, the incensed academic hastened to prove his point by hurling food and plates at them. After a brief period of calm, Chung answered a call of nature, and upon being told to sit down when he came back shoved and throttled a male flight attendant.
Flight crew feared Chung was out of control and tied his hands with rope for about five minutes until they thought he had settled down.
But no sooner had the restraints been taken off than the scholar charged the cockpit, ignoring orders from crew to return to his seat because he was endangering the safety of the aircraft. Chung eventually had to be manhandled back to his seat and restrained once more. From there, he continued his harangue for another 30 minutes until other passengers demanded he should be gagged, according to flight attendants.
Chung at last fell into a drunken stupor and on arrival at Incheon International Airport was handed over to police for questioning and released. Under air safety laws, in-flight misconduct such as excessive drinking, causing a disturbance or smoking can result in fines of up to W5 million (about US$5,000), while acts of violence threatening flight safety can land the perpetrator in prison for up to five years.
"It appears I made mistakes while drunk out of my mind,” Chung told police.
Gag Him (http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200507/200507010026.html)
Police have booked an academic with a leading Korean university for causing a drunken disturbance aboard an aircraft after the inebriated scholar threw crockery and attempted to barge into the cockpit.
Police at Incheon International Airport on Friday said a 46-year-old professor of administration with a university in Seoul on Wednesday boarded a Korean Air flight from Jakarta, Indonesia, where he had been on a business trip. The professor, identified by his family name of Chung, was already steaming when he took his business-class seat and proceeded to guzzle two glasses of champagne, two glasses of white wine and two glasses of red wine, all within an hour.
When flight attendants refused Chung’s continuing request for booze on the grounds that excessive in-flight drinking was dangerous, the incensed academic hastened to prove his point by hurling food and plates at them. After a brief period of calm, Chung answered a call of nature, and upon being told to sit down when he came back shoved and throttled a male flight attendant.
Flight crew feared Chung was out of control and tied his hands with rope for about five minutes until they thought he had settled down.
But no sooner had the restraints been taken off than the scholar charged the cockpit, ignoring orders from crew to return to his seat because he was endangering the safety of the aircraft. Chung eventually had to be manhandled back to his seat and restrained once more. From there, he continued his harangue for another 30 minutes until other passengers demanded he should be gagged, according to flight attendants.
Chung at last fell into a drunken stupor and on arrival at Incheon International Airport was handed over to police for questioning and released. Under air safety laws, in-flight misconduct such as excessive drinking, causing a disturbance or smoking can result in fines of up to W5 million (about US$5,000), while acts of violence threatening flight safety can land the perpetrator in prison for up to five years.
"It appears I made mistakes while drunk out of my mind,” Chung told police.
Gag Him (http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200507/200507010026.html)