Librarian fined €400 and freed after air rage offence

THREE male passengers had to restrain a librarian on and off over one and a half hours during the course of an air rage incident on board a transatlantic flight at the weekend, a court heard yesterday.

Garda Noel O’Rourke told Ennis District Court at one stage, Harald Albrecht, aged 32, made a lunge for a female flight attendant, but did not make contact.

The Austrian Airlines flight en route from Washington to Vienna was forced to divert to Shannon Airport at 7.05am on Saturday arising from the incident and Garda O’Rourke said that Albrecht “had to be forcibly removed from the aircraft”.