Yep! The most famous one here in Barcelona is the president of FC Barcelona (the football club – Barça) who did exactly the same thing a few years ago after losing his nerves at a security checkpoint at BCN.

You’ll find a lot of information on Google if you look in Spanish. In English I’ve only found these 2:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...3/ai_n14786852
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2005/0...-i_n_4070.html

To understand the importance: here the “presidente” of Barça has about the same status as the president of the local government…