Monarch Pilot Maroons Drunken Passenger on Desert Island

Monarch Airlines had a problem with a drunken passenger. He was being abusive to both flight attendants and passengers. The beauty of the situation, they dropped him off in the middle of a desert island, to make his own way home! Monarch Airlines is in my Top 10 airlines list from now on.

Monarch Airlines has yet to decide whether to sue him for the cost of the unscheduled diversion, estimated at “many thousands of pounds”.
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.Telegraph .

Posted on December 30, 2005 by The Travel Blogger

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