One year in jail for Qatar man drunk, naked on flight

Posted by: Cruiser Sunday, 20 January 2013 3:15 PM[UAE] - South Africa

Perfectly correct, F1_Senna.

Would like to have seen this on an American carrier, Lufthansa, BA or Qantas, can you imagine that?

He would have been happy to have been arrested to the safety of the legal system.

Posted by: zman Friday, 18 January 2013 12:14 PM[UAE] - Qatar

This man shouldn't have been left to get drunk. They should have estimated the situation and stopped serving him alcohol at one point.

Posted by: Ali Monday, 21 January 2013 12:38 PM[UAE] - Qatar

Its actually a step in the right direction. In the past, "some" passengers have gotten away with assaulting other passengers or making phone calls during takeoff. Of course it is always justified by "this is my country/airline i can do what i want".

Posted by: Doug Friday, 18 January 2013 8:21 PM[UAE] - UAE

Just a thought - as I've pointed out earlier, the nationality of this person hasn't been disclosed. Perhaps it's time to be less subtle - clearly this person was of a nationality that a)it would be embarrassing to reveal had been drunk and b)was of a nationality who an expat flight attendent wouldn't be able to say 'no' to unless they wanted to get fired. What a wasta time, eh?

Posted by: Thamir Ghaslan Friday, 18 January 2013 12:37 AM[UAE] - Saudi Arabia

Being a regular on Qatar airways, I assure you the host and hostess are way too polite with the more unruly passengers. Too timid or part of their professional training, who knows!

Reminds me of one episode where a drunk was spewing profanities at the hostess and lit a cigarette in his seat and was acting like a total idiot.

The passengers were more aggressive towards him and put him in his place and did a better job at it than the flight crew.

Posted by: Doug Thursday, 17 January 2013 2:38 PM[UAE] - UAE

I find this story very confusing. Usually, the first thing that gets reported in a crime story is the criminal's nationality. Yet this one does not feature it at all. I can only assume the person in question wasn't a Qatari (because as we've seen elsewhere, Qataris rightly don't want alcohol in their country, and so would never drink alcohol themselves). So I wonder who it was? It's a complete mystery, isn't it!

Posted by: The Avenger Thursday, 17 January 2013 2:38 PM[UAE] - Qatar

After all the comments on The Pearl article and this little beauty shows up here .
I find it quite amazing at all the comments berating westerners on their love of alcohol and look what shows up 2 days later.

These incidents happen regular here in bars and clubs with muslims and they are just not reported but running down a plane naked isn't something the worlds 5 star airline can hide !