British Man Handed Suspended Sentence After Drunken Behavior Forces Emergency Landing in Thessaloniki

British Man Handed Suspended Sentence After Drunken Behavior Forces Emergency Landing in Thessaloniki

A Greek court handed a 42-year-old British man a three-month suspended prison sentence Monday after his drunken conduct aboard a TUI flight bound for Crete forced the pilot to divert and land in Thessaloniki overnight. The Thessaloniki Single-Member Court of Appeals found the man guilty of disobeying the captain's orders and disturbing the peace during the flight from Newcastle to Heraklion. The sentence was suspended for three years. The man admitted to the charges in court, telling the judg...

By ANTHEE CARASSAVA