One passenger on board a Singapore Airlines (SIA) flight in Hong Kong was offloaded and handed to the authorities due to his angry outburst. According to aviation tracking website Flightradar24, flight SQ897 taxied close to the runway at the Hong Kong International Airport but turned back. The plane was bound for Singapore.
The flight was delayed for nearly three hours due to an unruly passenger.One passenger on board a Singapore Airlines flight in Hong Kong was offloaded and handed to the authorities due to his angry outburst.
The flight, which was set to take off at 8.25pm on Tuesday , only departed three hours later at 11.23pm, according to the Hong Kong Airport Authority's website.This delay had been caused by a passenger who allegedly lost his temper after his request for alcohol before take-off was denied by cabin crew, reported Hong Kong-based online platform HK01 News.
Responding to HK01 News, the local police said that the passenger in question is a male Singaporean, 71, surnamed Tan. It added that the case had been deemed a "request for police assistance" and no arrest was made.Responding to AsiaOne's queries, a SIA spokesperson said that a passenger on board flight SQ897 was behaving in an unruly manner and repeatedly abused the cabin crew on board before the flight took off.
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