BA 747 Cockpit Attacker Back in France
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BA 747 Cockpit Attacker Back in France
From a Kenyan paper - "The Nation".
The man who nearly plunged a British Airways plane has returned to France.
Mr Paul Kefa Mukonyi was re-admitted to Universite Lumire Lyon after two months of treatment at Nairobi Hospital.
He left the country by an Emirates Airline plane after the British Airways refused him carriage following the incident. The airline said it could not offer him carriage as it was "serious about the security of its passengers".
Mr Mukonyi hit international headlines last December 30 when he nearly plunged the BA plane in the Sudanese air space. He had boarded the plane in Gatwick Airport, United Kingdom, as he ran away from what he believed were assailants, a condition doctors described as paranoia.
He broke into the cockpit of the jumbo jet and bit the pilot, leading to a struggle as he attempted to seize the flight controls of the Boeing 747-400, nearly causing it to crash.
The plane, carrying 379 passengers and 16 crew members, took two nose dives before the pilot took full control. It landed safely in Nairobi and Mr Mukonyi was arrested.
The Attorney-General, Mr Amos Wako, did not prefer any charges against him. He said: "Guilty intent cannot be proved against him."
Dr Frank Njenga, a psychiatrist, said Mr Mukonyi's condition had improved drastically. "As we had said, the nature of his ailment was curable and there was no cause for alarm," he told the Nation by telephone.
Mr Mukonyi's bill at Nairobi Hospital stands at Sh800,000. Yesterday, Mukonyi's father, Benard, said his son was still on medication.
The family will hold a series of fund-raisings to offset the bill. Malava MP Soita ****anda will preside over the main fund-raising at a later date.
The family appealed to well-wishers to assist.
The man who nearly plunged a British Airways plane has returned to France.
Mr Paul Kefa Mukonyi was re-admitted to Universite Lumire Lyon after two months of treatment at Nairobi Hospital.
He left the country by an Emirates Airline plane after the British Airways refused him carriage following the incident. The airline said it could not offer him carriage as it was "serious about the security of its passengers".
Mr Mukonyi hit international headlines last December 30 when he nearly plunged the BA plane in the Sudanese air space. He had boarded the plane in Gatwick Airport, United Kingdom, as he ran away from what he believed were assailants, a condition doctors described as paranoia.
He broke into the cockpit of the jumbo jet and bit the pilot, leading to a struggle as he attempted to seize the flight controls of the Boeing 747-400, nearly causing it to crash.
The plane, carrying 379 passengers and 16 crew members, took two nose dives before the pilot took full control. It landed safely in Nairobi and Mr Mukonyi was arrested.
The Attorney-General, Mr Amos Wako, did not prefer any charges against him. He said: "Guilty intent cannot be proved against him."
Dr Frank Njenga, a psychiatrist, said Mr Mukonyi's condition had improved drastically. "As we had said, the nature of his ailment was curable and there was no cause for alarm," he told the Nation by telephone.
Mr Mukonyi's bill at Nairobi Hospital stands at Sh800,000. Yesterday, Mukonyi's father, Benard, said his son was still on medication.
The family will hold a series of fund-raisings to offset the bill. Malava MP Soita ****anda will preside over the main fund-raising at a later date.
The family appealed to well-wishers to assist.
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Just wait... Next week this guy will attack BA and take them into court for having placed an innocent pax into a psychiatric institution against his will !
This guy doesn't seem to need medication. What he needs is a pirogue and a pair of paddles next time he's going on holiday ! I'm ready to give 5 Euros to this guy, so that he stays far far away from my plane !
This guy doesn't seem to need medication. What he needs is a pirogue and a pair of paddles next time he's going on holiday ! I'm ready to give 5 Euros to this guy, so that he stays far far away from my plane !
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Well it seems to me that we have a perfectly good extradition treaty betwixt England and France. Hopefully it is only a matter of time before either BA or one of the many wealthy passengers on that flight bring some sort of legal action against this guy and have hime incarcerated, be it in prison or an asylum of some sorts.
Not holding my breath though.
Just wondering how he managed to afford an airline ticket and yet unable to pay his hospital bills.
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Not holding my breath though.
Just wondering how he managed to afford an airline ticket and yet unable to pay his hospital bills.
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What i can't understand is that it has taken a mentally unstable man, two months to get better. Two months for gods sake....!! I know of people who have had problems in the past(80s)through drug abuse and are still having paranoia attacks even now. Two months to make a mentally unstable man well again...no f*&^%$g way is he better..... 
(Before the do-gooders get on my case, no, i am not a doc and never will be but i have worked with mentally ill people in the past, albeit voluntary, so i know a bit about what its all about......)
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Its not the fall that kills you...Its the sudden stop.....
(Before the do-gooders get on my case, no, i am not a doc and never will be but i have worked with mentally ill people in the past, albeit voluntary, so i know a bit about what its all about......)
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I'd be VERY interested to learn whether the Emirates crew(s) were in any way warned this gent was aboard. Two crews would have been involved, for the NBO-DXB sector and the DXB-CDG sector.
If I was a betting man, I think I'd get pretty good odds on the answer to my question was "no".
On a similar vein, I've always wondered about the 'airline of choice' of the people who went to and from Nairobi to bomb the US Embassy. I'd be very surprised if said airline hasn't already been mentioned on this thread.
If I was a betting man, I think I'd get pretty good odds on the answer to my question was "no".
On a similar vein, I've always wondered about the 'airline of choice' of the people who went to and from Nairobi to bomb the US Embassy. I'd be very surprised if said airline hasn't already been mentioned on this thread.
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Why can't you believe that he was genuinly sick when he did what he did. He was given the help that he needed and good luck to him, if he was in Britain he would still be on the waiting list. He was found mentally incompetant at the time and I'm sure he is sorry. why don't you just leave him alone.
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I just don't know what to say in this case that would make any sense. A person who quietly shoplifts a 50-cent candy bar gets two years hard time, while a person who shows extreme violence and attempted murder gets a pat on the head.
There is something wrong with this "new" society that we're living in today. I've never been either conservative or liberal, but this kind of action certainly tends me to swing a little more to the right. Maybe I'm getting older.
Here is this person, just let out of presumably a psychiatric hospital, flying (prsumably alone) to France and tonight is (presumably) walking the streets of Lyon.
God knows what demons he will encounter on the "left bank." Yes, the paper, says, he is on medication, but as I remember from last December, he was supposedly on medication then, too, when the demons attacked him, and he, in turn, attacked the demons.
I've also had some non-professional experience with mentally unstable people and the medication works if they are closely supervised. The problem is that after a while they fell that they are "feeling" better and trash the pills.
This young man, I'm afraid to say, is a time bomb waiting to go off. If he was so deeply disturbed that he tried to down a jet, fight and bite the crew, and had no conscious recollection that there were almost 400 other people aboard that he was intentionally or unintentionally trying to kill, I'm sorry, I just don't think that a few months treatment is enough to put him back on the street unsupervised, especially in a foreign country.
But who am I? I'm just a plain PPRuNe poster. I'm sure that the learned Kenyan psychiatrists and psychologists know better.
A little sidebar to this story. It seems to me that this was no pauper kid. According to the story, the fund-raising effort organized to pay for his medical bills is typically rah, rah, Western. This guy wasn't born on the wrong side of the tracks.
[This message has been edited by LatviaCalling (edited 07 June 2001).]
There is something wrong with this "new" society that we're living in today. I've never been either conservative or liberal, but this kind of action certainly tends me to swing a little more to the right. Maybe I'm getting older.
Here is this person, just let out of presumably a psychiatric hospital, flying (prsumably alone) to France and tonight is (presumably) walking the streets of Lyon.
God knows what demons he will encounter on the "left bank." Yes, the paper, says, he is on medication, but as I remember from last December, he was supposedly on medication then, too, when the demons attacked him, and he, in turn, attacked the demons.
I've also had some non-professional experience with mentally unstable people and the medication works if they are closely supervised. The problem is that after a while they fell that they are "feeling" better and trash the pills.
This young man, I'm afraid to say, is a time bomb waiting to go off. If he was so deeply disturbed that he tried to down a jet, fight and bite the crew, and had no conscious recollection that there were almost 400 other people aboard that he was intentionally or unintentionally trying to kill, I'm sorry, I just don't think that a few months treatment is enough to put him back on the street unsupervised, especially in a foreign country.
But who am I? I'm just a plain PPRuNe poster. I'm sure that the learned Kenyan psychiatrists and psychologists know better.
A little sidebar to this story. It seems to me that this was no pauper kid. According to the story, the fund-raising effort organized to pay for his medical bills is typically rah, rah, Western. This guy wasn't born on the wrong side of the tracks.
[This message has been edited by LatviaCalling (edited 07 June 2001).]
