SYDNEY — A passenger has been fined for urinating in a cup throughout a delay in deplaning after touchdown at Sydney Airport.
The incident, after a 3-hour Air New Zealand flight from Auckland, occurred final December and a Sydney court docket fined the 53-year-old man 600 Australian {dollars} ($395) for offensive habits in February, officers mentioned Friday.
The incident solely got here to public consideration on Friday, when New Zealand information web site Stuff reported {that a} passenger in the identical row, recognized solely as Hollv, mentioned she had reported the habits to the air crew.
She mentioned she and her 15-year-old daughter have been sitting within the aisle and center seats when the person within the window seat, whose title has not been launched, was urinating in a cup.
Holly mentioned the airplane had been on the tarmac for about 20 minutes, ready for a terminal gate to be allotted, when she heard the unmistakable sound of the passenger urinating in a cup, Stuff reported.
She mentioned the person was “clearly fairly drunk” and spilled urine on a flight attendant as he left the airplane, it reported.
However the mishap with the attendant wasn’t his crime. Australian Federal Police mentioned in a press release that officers eliminated him from the airplane as a result of he had “urinated right into a cup whereas in his seat.”
Air New Zealand mentioned it doesn’t touch upon particular person incidents. It mentioned it bans between 5 and 10 prospects every month for disruptive habits, together with intoxication.
