87-year-old woman passenger forced an Air Canada flight to divert to Shannon

It was an Air Canada flight ACA-877 from Frankfurt to Toronto with 211 passengers on board and an 87-year-old woman passenger forced it to divert to Shannon Airport in Ireland – she was a pensioner and was traveling First Class but had been creating disturbance on board. The cabin crew had to restrain her and the Boeing 777-300 had to go in for an unscheduled landing.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 11 April 2015.

Once the pilot was alerted by the flight crew, he contacted the Irish Aviation Authority’s (IAA) North Atlantic Communications Service centre at Ballygirreen in Co Clare and they advised him to land at Shannon Airport.
After the Boeing touched down, airport police officers took the woman into custody. She was, subsequently, released without charge but will have to undergo a 'fit-to-fly’ screening so that she can continue on her journey.

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