United Airlines Flight 976
Gerard Finneran, a Wall Street investment banker, had been refused further alcoholic beverages when cabin crew determined he was intoxicated. He then went into the first-class compartment, which was also carrying Portuguese president Mário Soares and Argentinian foreign minister Guido di Tella. There, he defecated, using linen napkins to wipe himself, and later tracked and smeared his feces around the cabin. The incident has been recalled as the worst case of air rage ever.
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Gerard Finneran, a Wall Street investment banker, had been refused further alcoholic beverages when cabin crew determined he was intoxicated. He then went into the first-class compartment, which was also carrying Portuguese president Mário Soares and Argentinian foreign minister Guido di Tella. There, he defecated, using linen napkins to wipe himself, and later tracked and smeared his feces around the cabin. Food service was canceled due to the unsanitary conditions and the crew sprayed perfume all over the cabin instead to suppress the smell of the feces. The pilots tried to divert to Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico, but were refused since the presence of foreign dignitaries on board created a security risk. He pleaded guilty and was fined USD 5,000, with two years’ probation; he had also agreed to perform community service and pay USD 48,000 to reimburse United’s cleanup costs and the other passengers for their airfare.
The incident has been recalled as the worst case of air rage ever. The crew were suspended to attend rest periods to cover the possibility of an infectious condition. The flight was a regularly scheduled flight from Ministro Pistarini International airport in Buenos Aires to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City on October 19-20, 1995. Upon landing, one passenger, Gerard Fineran, was arrested by the FBI and charged with interfering with a flight crew and threatening a flight attendant. He was a member of the first graduating class of the U.S. Air Force Academy where he was an athlete, he later got an M. B. A. from University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. He had worked at Citibank and Drexel Burnham Lambert before TCW, becoming an expert on Third World debt, particularly in Latin America.
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