Man caused ‘pandemonium’ on Aer Lingus flight with hoax coronavirus claim

A Dutch trainee driving instructor, who caused “pandemonium” on an Aer Lingus flight to Dublin when he made a hoax coronavirus claim, has been given a two-month prison sentence. Former boat captain and ski instructor, Job van den Broek, 30, pleaded guilty on Thursday to an air-rage charge after he had delayed Wednesday’s flight EI 605 from Amsterdam because he would not end a phone call. He was flying to Ireland to get a connecting flight to Los Angeles to propose to his girlfriend, Judge Conal Gibbons heard at Dublin District Court. Sentencing, he said Van den Broek thought there were special rules for him and he told a fiction to the flight attendant that his mother had the coronavirus. The accused buried his head in his hands as the sentence was handed down. However, the business graduate was granted appeal bail, which he took up soon after the hearing.<br/>