Maskhole Arrested For Assaulting Delta Flight Captain

The New York Daily News reports:

Horrified passengers on a flight from Ireland to Kennedy Airport were shocked when an out-of-control man dropped his pants and mooned a passenger and everyone else in sight, federal prosecutors said Friday. Shane McInerny, 29, was heading to America where he was set to take on a job coaching soccer in Florida, but he had to make a pit stop in Brooklyn Federal Court after he was arrested for numerous disturbances on the 8-hour flight on Jan. 7, prosecutors said.

McInenry also “repeatedly refused” to wear a facemask on the flight, prosecutors said. About two hours into the flight, the captain was on a break and tried to speak with the unhinged passenger, prosecutors said. “During the conversation, the defendant twice took off his cap, placed the cap on [the captain’s] head, and removed it from [the captain’s] head. The defendant also put one of his fists up close to [the captain’s] head and said: ‘Don’t touch me,’” prosecutors wrote.

CNN reports:



McInerney also did not remain seated when the airplane was on its final approach to the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, the complaint read.

McInerney is facing a felony charge of intentionally assaulting and intimidating a member of a flight crew, according to John Marzulli, spokesman for the District Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.

If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison, Marzulli said. McInerney’s attorney, Benjamin Zev Yaster, had no comment. McInerney was released on a $20,000 bond and remains in the US as a condition of his bond, according to Marzulli.