Unruly pair faces big fine after flight diverted to YVR
Posted December 1, 2011 11:27 am.
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RICHMOND (NEWS1130) – Maybe it was the altitude. Two men from Ontario are stuck splitting a $71,757 bill after they got too drunk on an Air Canada flight and forced it to be diverted in Vancouver.
The flight, en route from Toronto to Beijing, made an ‘unscheduled’ landing at YVR around 10 p.m. on Monday.
“To sum it up, they just simply weren’t behaving,” explains Corporal Sherrdean Turley with the Richmond RCMP. “They were in a drunken state, and weren’t listening to anything the flight crew was telling them or asking them to do so they were actually restrained.”
George Campbell, 45, of Conestogo, Ontario and Paul Alexander Wilson, 38, of Kitchener, Ontario were charged and pleaded guilty to Mischief.
Turley tells us being so close to the airport, officers often deal with unruly passengers. “However, this one stands out a bit, due to the fact that the passengers had to be restrained and the fact they had to divert so far off their flight path.”
In addition to the restitution, both men were handed suspended sentences and one year’s probation.
