Air attack flier beats jail due to plane fear

WOMAN who forced a pilot to abort a landing because she was fighting with crew and passengers has avoided jail because of her fear of flying.
Lynn Grimes, 41, had been drinking before the Athens to Manchester flight and sank a bottle of wine on board to help her cope with the trip.

Cabin crew had let her sit with them due to her phobia - but as the easyJet plane came in to land she refused to go back to her seat.

Grimes grabbed a passenger by the hair and kicked a steward in the stomach, forcing the pilot to keep the plane in the air until she was seated.

Tourism worker Grimes, of South Shields, Tyne and Wear, admitted endangering an aircraft and two assault charges.

A judge at Manchester's Minshull Street Crown Court gave her an eight-month suspended sentence after accepting she "simply panicked".

 

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