Passenger from hell ordered to pay airline $172,000
published : 8 Jul 2019 at 00:06
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Associated Press
HONOLULU: A man whose behaviour on a Hawaiian Airlines flight to South Korea forced it to return to Honolulu has been ordered to pay the air carrier more than $172,000 (5.3 million baht).
Kyong Chol Kim was also sentenced on Wednesday to six months in jail for interfering with flight attendants and crew members on the flight in February, reports said on Friday.
Prosecutors say the 48-year-old South Korean man drank a bottle of whiskey before the flight and later bothered a child seated next him.
Prosecutors say he lunged at a flight attendant after the employee confronted him about his behavior.
US armed forces members on board helped restrain Kim as the flight turned around.
Kim was ordered to pay Hawaiian Airlines the cost of returning the flight and accommodating the passengers waiting for the plane in South Korea.
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Vocabulary
- bother: to make someone feel worried or upset - ทำให้รำคาญ, ทำให้วิตกกังวล
- interfere: to deliberately become involved in a situation and try to influence the way that it develops, although you have no right to do this - แทรกแซง
- lunge (verb): to make a sudden powerful forward movement, especially in order to attack somebody or take hold of something - การพุ่งเข้าใส่, การเคลื่อนไปข้างหน้าอย่างรวดเร็ว
- restrain: to stop somebody/something from doing something, often, but not always, by using physical force - กักขัง, ยับยั้ง, จำกัด
- sentence: (of a court of law) to officially state what someone's punishment will be - พิพากษา, ตัดสินลงโทษ
- Keywords
- flight
- air carrier
- crew members
- flight attendant
