Drunken Aeroflot Crew Members Beat Up Plane Passenger
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Drunken passengers often give air crews trouble, but Russia's leading airlin=
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reported a new twist: intoxicated flight attendants beating up a passenger.
Two crew members on a domestic Aeroflot flight beat a passenger who had=20
complained that the flight attendants were drunk, airline spokeswoman Irina=20
Dannenberg said on Tuesday.
The passenger, identified only as A. Chernopup, was aboard a recent flight=20
from Moscow to the Siberian city of Nizhnevartovsk, Dannenberg said. She sai=
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the crew belonged to another airline, Aviaenergo.
Seeing that the crew were intoxicated and were not fulfilling their duties,=20
Chernopup asked to be served by a sober and competent flight attendant,=20
Dannenberg said. Chernopup was then beaten up by crew members.
The male flight attendants were so intoxicated that they "behaved improperly=
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and only began catering to passengers 1{ hours into the four-hour trip,=20
Dannenberg said.
The daily Izvestia quoted another passenger as saying that half of the food=20
the crew served ended up on the floor, leaving the aisle strewn with debris.
According to the passenger, Chernopup left the plane with a black eye and wa=
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promptly sent to a doctor. Izvestia said a criminal case was opened by=20
police.
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