Saturday brought me a brand new experience when, for the first time, I was interviewed by the police. I hadn't done anything wrong (you'll be pleased to hear) - I was simply providing a witness statement to them. Two coppers called at my apartment and spent over an hour with me while I went through the events that had led up to a passenger being ejected from my New York flight in April (while we were still on the ground at Heathrow, just in case you are now picturing some sort of freefall departure mid-Atlantic!!). I won't go into too much detail in this Blog entry, as I don't want to be accused of prejudicing the forthcoming trial. But I can say that it was a strange experience sitting in my lounge on Saturday trying to recall exact details - I must've sounded pretty vague at times. I certainly remembered the incident taking place as it was the only time (in over 300 flights) where I had become uncomfortable before take-off with the actions/demeanour of another passenger. Trying to remember exact colours/styles of clothing and characteristics of the person and his travelling companion wasn't an easy job after all this time. But I ended up providing a good summary of what I had seen, and happily signed-off the statement once I had read it through (it took a lot for me to resist marking-up all the spelling errors etc that had been made by the policeman in his notebook!) More than three months had passed since the event took place and, as I hadn't heard anything from British Airways, I had assumed that the matter had been closed. But I'm glad to learn that steps are now being taken to prosecute the person, and hopefully he will be barred from stepping on board any other BA flight in the future. Dealing properly with unruly or uncooperative passengers is clearly now all the rage.
Tuesday, 21 August 2007
Interviewed by the police
Saturday brought me a brand new experience when, for the first time, I was interviewed by the police. I hadn't done anything wrong (you'll be pleased to hear) - I was simply providing a witness statement to them. Two coppers called at my apartment and spent over an hour with me while I went through the events that had led up to a passenger being ejected from my New York flight in April (while we were still on the ground at Heathrow, just in case you are now picturing some sort of freefall departure mid-Atlantic!!). I won't go into too much detail in this Blog entry, as I don't want to be accused of prejudicing the forthcoming trial. But I can say that it was a strange experience sitting in my lounge on Saturday trying to recall exact details - I must've sounded pretty vague at times. I certainly remembered the incident taking place as it was the only time (in over 300 flights) where I had become uncomfortable before take-off with the actions/demeanour of another passenger. Trying to remember exact colours/styles of clothing and characteristics of the person and his travelling companion wasn't an easy job after all this time. But I ended up providing a good summary of what I had seen, and happily signed-off the statement once I had read it through (it took a lot for me to resist marking-up all the spelling errors etc that had been made by the policeman in his notebook!) More than three months had passed since the event took place and, as I hadn't heard anything from British Airways, I had assumed that the matter had been closed. But I'm glad to learn that steps are now being taken to prosecute the person, and hopefully he will be barred from stepping on board any other BA flight in the future. Dealing properly with unruly or uncooperative passengers is clearly now all the rage.
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