Woman forces plane down after being refused champagne

By Micheal Gebicki
Updated December 14 2017 - 10:43am, first published 10:38am

On December 10 a SWISS flight from Moscow to Zurich made an unscheduled landing in Stuttgart following a passenger's attack on a flight crew member. After she was denied another glass of champagne, the Swiss business-class passenger erupted, so much so that the pilot landed the aircraft as a precautionary measure. The passenger copped a ???5000 ($A7743) fine.

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