For almost two years, another air brawler landed “behind bars”: in Russia, they began to give real terms for a brawl on an airplane. It’s true that we are not talking about a tourist flight – a resident of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, who “distinguished himself” during a flight from Novosibirsk to Magadan, was sentenced to one year and seven months in a penal colony for hooliganism while intoxicated. However, tourist flights are unlikely to be an exception.
The details reported by TASS are as follows – the brawler distinguished himself on December 8, 2021. Then, being in a state of drug intoxication on board an aircraft en route from Magadan to Novosibirsk, “behaved inappropriately, molested the crew and passengers of the flight, came into conflict with them, tried to choke one of the passengers with it, did not respond to the repeated remarks of flight attendants “, according to the court data. As a result, flight attendants, with the assistance of passengers, immobilized the insane citizen with the help of belts and handed him over to the police upon landing.
As a result, the rowdy was found guilty of committing a crime under Part 2 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism committed in air transport, with the use of violence against citizens and objects used as weapons, associated with resistance to another person preventing a violation of public order). “By a court verdict, the convict was sentenced to imprisonment for a period of 1 year and 7 months, with the sentence to be served in a correctional colony of general regime,” the message says.
Recall that the most famous air brawler in Russia is Sergey Kabalov, who “became famous” on a tourist flight. At the end of January 2013, the Main Department of Transport of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia opened a criminal case on the fact of beating a flight attendant on board the A320 airliner of the Kogalymavia airline, flying on flight No. 9521 from Moscow to Hurghada. Then a drunk tourist, after he was banned from smoking on board the liner, attacked the 23-year-old steward who made a remark to him, and also broke the nose of one of the passengers. Upon arriving in Russia, the hooligan realized what he had done and hid from Russian justice for quite a long time: only on December 9, 2013, the jury in the Moscow Regional Court unanimously found businessman Sergei Kabalov guilty of attempting to hijack an airplane en route from Moscow to Hurghada. During the debate, the prosecutor asked to recognize Kabalov guilty of committing crimes under the articles “intentional infliction of minor bodily harm out of hooligan motives” and “attempted hijacking of an air transport vessel with the use of violence dangerous to life or health.” And in the end, in February 2014, Kabalov was sentenced to 3.5 years in a strict regime colony in the case of an attempted hijacking and causing slight harm to the health of a flight attendant.
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