Drunk passenger fined £2,224 for verbally abusing staff on BA flight

• Emmet Moynihan, 31, has been fined £2,224 after admitting to being drunk on a British Airways flight from Heathrow to Las Vegas.
• The Co Cork resident verbally abused cabin crew and called the situation a "f****** joke" when told he could not use the toilet during a flight delay.
• Footage shared online showed Moynihan lunging towards passengers who were filming him before the co-pilot intervened.
• He pleaded guilty at Uxbridge Magistrates Court to entering an aircraft while drunk and failing to obey the lawful commands of a pilot.
• Magistrate Sandra Joseph noted the case was not sent to the Crown Court only because the aircraft was still on the ground.

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Drunk stag do passenger fined thousands for abusing crew on Las Vegas flight