AIRLINE PASSENGER MUST HAVE BEEN STRUCK BY ONE HOCKEY PUCK TOO MANY

Drunk Russian ex-NHL ice hockey star 'floors air stewardess mid-flight after she refused to top up his whisky' causing pilot to make emergency landing

Daily Mail
January 1, 2019

The business class passenger, identified by Moscow media as Oleg Saprykin, was said to have been intoxicated after New Year festivities in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

Reports claim the 37-year-old - who had seven seasons in the NHL in North America and has a homes in Phoenix and Moscow - demanded a top-up of whisky during an Aurora Airlines flight from the city to Moscow.

One account reported that he jumped out of his seat, screamed at the flight attendant, and struck her on the head as she sought to calm him. Video released by the Russian Interior Ministry shows him shouting at flight crew in a foul-mouthed rant.

After the passenger was detained, he was seen in a video in only underwear banging on a cell door and throwing broken furniture through the bars.