Passenger slaps flight attendant on the butt, pulls another passengers hair (not from "Airplane")

[marmar]

from Syracuse.com:



Oswego woman restrained with duct tape on flight (update)
by The Associated Press Wednesday November 05, 2008, 2:28 PM
Update:

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- An airline crew used duct tape to keep a passenger in her seat because they say she became unruly, fighting flight attendants and grabbing other passengers, forcing the flight to land in North Carolina.

Maria Esther Castillo of Oswego, is due in court Thursday, charged with resisting arrest and interfering with the operations of a flight crew aboard United Airlines Flight 645, from Puerto Rico to Chicago.

Castillo, 45, struck a flight attendant on the buttocks with the back of her hand during Saturday's flight, FBI Special Agent Peter Carricato said in a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Charlotte. She also stood and fell onto the head of a blind passenger and later started pulling the person's hair, the complaint stated.

Ankle cuffs kept slipping off Castillo, so the flight crew and two passengers were forced to use duct tape to keep her in her seat, the complaint states. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2008/11/oswego_woman_restrained_with_d.html

[TheWraith]

1. Sounds like she was drunk, or high, or both.

Or she might just have been nuts.