Passengers bind, gag fellow passenger

[DaveReidUK]

Interesting article by the guy, Andy Ellwood, to whom the photo is attributed (but who in fact didn't take it);

Going Viral For Something You Didn't Do - Forbes

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drunk engineer was taped to his seat

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.


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.


'When he became unruly, (i.e. trying to choke the woman next to him and screaming the plane was going to crash), fellow passengers subdued him and tie him up for the rest of the flight. He was escorted off the flight by police when it landed.'
The photo was sent to Ellwood because he and his friend liked to trade 'travel war stories' he said.
His friend who observed the in-flight meltdown did not want to be identified or talk with the media.
Arthorsson was arrested upon landing at JFK on Thursday.
His tirade began after several hours in the air when there were about two hours left on the flight, reported Icelandic news outlet Mbl.is.

[DaveReidUK]

No airway problems here, he's still managing to swear through the duct tape

Drunk Icelandair passenger being taped to seat - YouTube

Note also the classic comment:

what if the plane crashed on a deserted island and he was the only survivor...taped to his seat?