Drunk Passenger's Air Rage Jail Sentence

0:00On April 7th, a 61-year-old man from Wales named Stephen Blowfield just got ten months in jail for turning a Ryanair flight from crack out to. Bristol into a nightmare on November 11th. He was so hammered that passengers and crew thought their lives were at risk, forcing the pilot to scrap the first landing attempt. Blowfield started pounding drinks at the airport to ease his flight anxiety, then kept going on board, hurling vile abuse especially at the Polish staff. He wouldn't buckle up or sit down, leaving everyone on edge until the plane finally touched down safely. Crew and passengers described pure fear, with one top cop calling it the worst abuse he'd seen in 20 years on the job. When police rushed in post-landing, Blowfield was still raging, nearly clocking a fellow passenger while getting cuffed. They even had to slide him off, using a special lift usually for folks with disabilities. In court, he copped to being drunk in the air, threatening crew, ignoring the pilot and causing public alarm.

1:00His lawyer said he lost his meds for back pain, depression and nerves, turned to booze foolishly, and remembered nothing, plus a rough background, tracing family roots in Poland. Judges don't play when flights get hijacked by chaos like this, only hard time fits the bill here, sending a clear message that AirRage won't fly. Stay safe up there folks.