Trouble at 36,000ft

Monday 02 November 1998 00:02 GMT

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OCTOBER 1998 - Former Stone Roses member Ian Brown gets four months' jail after telling stewardess he would chop off her hands. Bailed last week.

SEPTEMBER 1998 - David Wilkie jailed for threatening to open emergency exit on flight to US.

JUNE 1998 - BA flight from New York in emergency landing after heroin addict Elizabeth Elliot bit stewardess.Elliot jailed.

MAY 1998 - Cathay Pacific banned Oasis duo Liam and Noel Gallagher for drunk and rowdy behaviour.

MARCH 1998 - Drunk businessman John Henson threatened to kill the pilot, butted passenger, indecently assaulted stewardess.

MAY 1996 - England footballers, returning from a pre-Euro96 friendly in Hong Kong, wreaked havoc on a Cathay Pacific flight, doing pounds 5,000 of damage.

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