Intoxicated airline passenger faces 20-year sentence
A South Korea-bound Hawaiian Airlines passenger faces a maximum 20-year prison term after a drunken disaster in the skies. Kyong Chol Kim pleaded guilty and told a federal judge that he doesn't remember being put into flex cuffs after lunging at a flight attendant. He was charged on Monday with interfering with flight attendants and flight crew members. He faces a maximum 20-year prison term at sentencing in July. Under the terms of his plea agreement, however, the govt will recommend he be released at his sentencing date. Kim has been in custody since late February. He's not getting off lightly by any stretch; Hawaiian Airlines says it cost US$172,000 to return the aircraft to Honolulu and then to resume the flight for the presumably vexed remaining passengers. Hawaiian and the court will reveal his fine at sentencing. <br/>
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Intoxicated airline passenger faces 20-year sentence
A South Korea-bound Hawaiian Airlines passenger faces a maximum 20-year prison term after a drunken disaster in the skies. Kyong Chol Kim pleaded guilty and told a federal judge that he doesn't remember being put into flex cuffs after lunging at a flight attendant. He was charged on Monday with interfering with flight attendants and flight crew members. He faces a maximum 20-year prison term at sentencing in July. Under the terms of his plea agreement, however, the govt will recommend he be released at his sentencing date. Kim has been in custody since late February. He's not getting off lightly by any stretch; Hawaiian Airlines says it cost US$172,000 to return the aircraft to Honolulu and then to resume the flight for the presumably vexed remaining passengers. Hawaiian and the court will reveal his fine at sentencing. <br/>
