Air Rage

As we went for an evening walk on Friday evening, in one of those lovely sunny periods which arrive so unexpectedly in the midst of rain showers, we were disturbed by a large passenger jet circling fairly low overhead – we watched him fly over us at least 5 times. Speculating on what he was doing I joked that we would probably read about it in the local paper next week.
Didn’t have to wait that long – opened the national Sunday paper this morning and found the story on page 3 of a German charter flight en route from Frankfurt to the Dominican Republic that had to divert to Shannon – after circling for 30 mins to dump fuel – because of a “drunken incident” on board. The guilty passenger appeared in a special court sitting in Ennis on Friday night and was fined €100 before being released. Guess that ruined his holiday!