Airline to sue librarian over air rage incident

THE airline at the centre of an air rage incident which forced a transatlantic jet to divert to Shannon airport is to sue a librarian who caused the disturbance.

The Austrian Airlines service en route from Washington to Vienna with 200 people on board had to divert after a 32-year-old librarian caused a disturbance which resulted in three male passengers having to restrain him.

Harald Albrecht was fined €400 at Ennis District Court this week.