Ad man handcuffed to plane seat

13 April 2012

A British advertising executive had to be handcuffed to his seat after he went berserk on a flight to South Africa.

Five men were needed to restrain Mark Hurst in the first-class cabin of a South African Airways flight to Cape Town.

At one stage he tried to kick out a window. He blamed his behaviour on a sleeping pill.

In a Cape Town court on Friday, he saw charges of endangering a flight dropped.

He said: "I had two drinks, did not eat, watched the movie and slept. When I woke I found myself handcuffed to the seat."

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