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Moment moaning drunk engineer was taped to his seat on flight to New York after 'trying to choke woman and ranting about crash'
New video has emerged of the drunken trans-Atlantic airline passenger who was restrained with duct tape wailing like a bear with a sore head as he is strapped into his seat after going on a rampage at 40,000-feet last week.
The footage shows Gudmundur Karl Arthorsson, 46, being tied into his seat by flight attendants after he tried to choke and grope several passengers aboard the flight from Reykjavik to Kennedy Airport - at one stage yelling out that the plane was going down.
Filmed by a passenger on the flight, Icelandic citizen Arthorsson can be heard to wail incessantly after he reportedly consumed large amounts of Grand Marnier, whiskey and schnapps at a duty-free store before the flight, which arrived in New York at 6.30 p.m. on Thursday night.
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mintbbbYT description continues:
'Arthorsson, who is a civil engineer who works in Trinidad and Tobago had visited his family in the Icelandic capital but was returning home to be with his fiancée on the Caribbean island.
After police removed him from the flight he was taken to Jamaica Hospital where he was treated for alcohol poisoning and luckily for him, Federal authorities declined to prosecute the case.
It was while aboard the New York-bound flight that Arthorsson was duct-taped to his seat by fellow passengers after attacking one woman, spitting on other passengers and screaming the plane was going to crash.
A friend of one of the observing passengers, Andy Ellwood of New York, posted a picture of the subdued flyer to his Tumblr with an account of the incident.
The 'passenger drank all of his duty free liquor on the flight from Iceland to JFK yesterday,' Ellwood wrote.'
Kofisays...What if he vomited? Dead engineer.
A10anisI am, quite frankly, amazed and angry that he wasn't prosecuted. Acting the way he did not only scared other passengers, but could have had catastrophic consequences. I can only assume that the authorities were in possession of facts that we are not privy to.
SevenFingersWell, being the fact the airline gave him all the alcohol he wanted til he was poisoned and delirious may be a factor. Yes.. yes he was the one who drank it, and acted that way.
I am, quite frankly, amazed and angry that he wasn't prosecuted. Acting the way he did not only scared other passengers, but could have had catastrophic consequences. I can only assume that the authorities were in possession of facts that we are not privy to.
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cool static effect for dead video!!!
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mintbbbthanks, fixed.
garmachiFrom the description: "...after he reportedly consumed large amounts of Grand Marnier, whiskey and schnapps at a duty-free store before the flight..."
Well, being the fact the airline gave him all the alcohol he wanted til he was poisoned and delirious may be a factor. Yes.. yes he was the one who drank it, and acted that way.
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mintbbbFixed.
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