Good grief. If this had been a report about an allegedly drunken passenger, there'd have been none of this "innocent till proven guilty" and "could just have been a medical condition" malarky. Just the usual mob hollering to lock 'em up and throw away the key.
thats not a fair comparison -for drunk passenger reports, althought the 'drunkenness' is not proven, the behaviour that caused the incident most certainly isn't. If a pax goes on the rampage, hitting crew members, trying to open doors etc, to be honest who cares if they really are drunk or not. They have still caused a major incident and broken the law.
I'm not defending this crew member if they were drunk, however there have been enough cases recently of malicious accusations (mainly from security) that the outcome of this should be awaited before throwing too many stones. The alcohol limits we work to are very low and the police aparently generally have to arrest people upon an accusation and cart them off for a blood test as teh breathaliser doesn't work to such low limits. in most recent cases the person concerned has been found to be innocent once all the evidence has come back.
and PS the 'english' bit in the story IS well out of order IMO. Unfortunately typical racist crap we've come to expect recently from north of the border. Funny how english / british / irish nationalism is a synonym for racism or terrorism, but scottish nationalism is somehow ok,even though they preach an incredibly racist message.
