[A]drunken Icelandair passenger…was taped to his seat on a New Year’s Eve flight from Reykjavik to New York. It was reported that 46-year-old Gudmundur Karl Arthorsson consumed a large amount of duty-free liquor during the flight and became aggressive toward the flight crew and other passengers. With an escalating level of threat to others, the man was duct-taped to his seat in an effort to restrain him until the flight landed at New York’s JFK airport.
How do you know that you may have had just a wee bit too much to drink? How about when you come to from your drunken haze and realize that you’re duct-tape to seat 16E on a Boeing 737? Kinda looks like someone had a terrible, horrible, very bad day…but let’s look on the bright side. Some enterprising soul found yet another use for duct tape.
I wasn’t aware that airplanes even carried duct tape, but evidently you just never know when something will need to be fixed- or someone will need to be forcibly restrained- and it’s not like you have a lot of options at 38,000 feet.
I can only hope that Arthorsson was able to deal with whatever demons led him to the point where his fellow passengers felt sufficiently moved to duct-tape him to his seat.
Memo to self: Remember that, when flying Icelandair, you can always borrow some duct tape from the flight crew.
