Jet Passenger Dies After Injection
An unruly passenger died aboard a Hungarian airliner Saturday after being strapped to his seat and injected with tranquilizers.
The passenger, identified by Turkey’s Anatolian news agency as Finnish national Mikaeinar Peterson, was dead by the time the Malev Airlines jetliner made an emergency landing in Istanbul.
Anatolian and Hungary’s MTI news agency said the man started harassing others aboard the plane carrying 190 passengers and a crew from Bangkok, Thailand, to Budapest, Hungary. He allegedly punched a pilot and tried to choke an attendant.
The crew and passengers tied him to his seat, and a doctor aboard gave him an injection.
An autopsy showed he died because of the mixture of the tranquilizer and some other drug or alcohol.
Police detained two pilots, four attendants and five passengers along with the doctor and his father.
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