Overview
- The 61-year-old, who pleaded guilty, was sentenced Tuesday to 10 months in prison.
- He began drinking before the return flight from Kraków to Bristol and kept drinking on board as he ignored crew instructions and hurled abuse at staff and passengers.
- The pilot aborted the first approach to Bristol because the man refused to sit down during landing.
- Police boarded after touchdown and removed him, and an officer said the insults he heard were the worst of his policing career.
- His lawyer said he had lost prescribed medications for back pain, depression and anxiety and has a long record, but the judge said only a prison term was appropriate.