TRAVEL TALES
BUZZ OFF TYPO TERROR FORESIGHT FIASCO ACCESS DENIED PEN PUSHER
A passenger was kicked o an IndiGo flight from Lucknow to Bengaluru after he complained about there being an excessive number of mosquitoes inside the cabin. The passenger claims he was manhandled by crew and threatened, though the airline claims the man was acting belligerently, which led to ground security removing him from the aircraft. A 65-year-old woman caused a portion of Brisbane Airport to be cordoned o last month after she wrote the words “Bomb to Brisbane” on her luggage. The woman, who was travelling from Mumbai, had mistakenly written “Bomb” rather than “BOM”, Mumbai’s airport code. A passenger on board a Lion Air flight from Jakarta to Padang was so convinced he could “see and feel” danger that he donned a life vest six times throughout the flight, despite cabin crew removing and stowing the life jacket on multiple occasions. The flight landed at its intended destination without incident. A Syrian man has spent more than a month living in the transit section of Kuala Lumpur International Airport. Hassan al-Kontar was deported from the UAE to Malaysia in 2017, where he was initially given a three-month visa, but was blacklisted for “overstaying”. Following a failed attempt to travel to Cambodia, he was sent back to Malaysia on March 7 this year and has been living at the airport ever since. An Air China flight bound for Beijing was forced to make an unscheduled landing in Zhengzhou after a passenger used a fountain pen to hold a flight attendant hostage. According to police, the 41-year-old man had a history of mental illness and suered a sudden psychological episode.