KLM Co-Pilot Attacked and Wounded by Deranged Passenger

A passenger aboard KLM Flight 897 attacked a co-pilot before he was subdued by fellow passengers. (Photo: Thinkstock)

In the latest headline of airline passengers behaving badly, a man injured himself before attacking a co-pilot on a KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight.

The incident occurred on Flight 897 en route to Beijing. According to a statement from the airline, a passenger “locked himself in the toilets and inflicted slight wounds on himself.”

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The confused man then attacked a co-pilot before other passengers subdued him. Some eyewitnesses say that the man stabbed the co-pilot with a piece of glass, but the airline statement says only that the passenger “slightly wounded the co-pilot in one of the kitchens in the cabin.”

“It was a frightening situation,” a passenger told De Telegraaf.

After the attack, the passenger was restrained in his seat until the plane landed in Beijing.

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