British man faces charges for Singapore airport ruckus over misplaced phone
The passenger allegedly hurled abusive words at an airline staff member and damaged a wall panel of the aerobridge
The authorities were alerted on March 8 to an incident of a man shouting and being rude to a female member of airline staff at Terminal 3, and damaging a wall in a gate hold room, police said on Sunday.
Investigations revealed that the British man realised that he had misplaced his mobile phone after boarding the aircraft for his flight from Singapore to London.
He then left the aircraft, hoping to search for it at the airport lounge he was at earlier, read the news release.
A female airline staff member at the gate hold room assisted to check with the airport lounge staff and informed him that no mobile phone was found there.
As it was close to the scheduled departure time of the flight, she informed him that leaving the gate hold room would result in him being offloaded from the flight.
The man then allegedly responded with “a slew of abusive and derogatory words”, police said.