A Ryanair flight from Dublin to Amsterdam was forced to abort take-off after a Belfast man assaulted a cabin crew member, it has been alleged.<\/p>\n
Christopher Tinsley (34), with an address at the Shankill Road, Belfast, appeared before Judge John Hughes at Dublin District Court on Saturday. <\/p>\n
Dressed in a top featuring a logo for the hardcore techno act Angerfist, he is charged with assault causing harm to a male attendant on Friday\u2019s scheduled 6.25pm flight.<\/p>\n
He is accused of onboard disruption in two other charges under the Air Navigation and Transport (Amendment) Act, 1998. <\/p>\n
These charges alleged he was intoxicated to such an extent as to give rise to a reasonable apprehension that he was likely to endanger the safety of himself or the safety of others on the aircraft, and that he engaged in behaviour of a threatening, abusive or insulting nature.<\/p>\n
Garda Ahmed Bilal stated the incident occurred as the aircraft was taxiing and \u201cabout to take off\u201d.<\/p>\n
He alleged that Tinsley became disruptive, leading the pilot to turn the plane back from the runway. <\/p>\n
Take-off was delayed by about two hours.<\/p>\n
Bilal opposed bail, citing flight risk, as the accused lives outside the jurisdiction. The Ballymun-based officer told the court that the victim suffered a \u201cvisible injury\u201d to his face and has provided a formal witness statement.<\/p>\n
Defending barrister Kevin McCrave pleaded for bail, stating that his client is a self-employed painter, is presumed innocent and would abide by any mandated conditions to address the court\u2019s concerns.<\/p>\n
Tinsley did not address the court and spoke only to confirm instructions to counsel<\/p>\n
Judge Hughes acceded to the application but set strict conditions. Tinsley must lodge \u20ac500 of a \u20ac1,000 bond and provide an independent surety of \u20ac1,000, with half to be lodged in cash.<\/p>\n
Under the terms of his release, the accused must surrender his passport, stay away from Dublin Airport and sign on once a week at Dundalk Garda station.<\/p>\n
Tinsley, who has not yet entered a plea, was remanded in custody with consent to bail. He is scheduled to appear again on Wednesday while garda\u00ed seek directions from the Director of Public Prosecutions. Legal aid was granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Ryanair flight from Dublin to Amsterdam was forced to abort take-off after a Belfast man assaulted a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[106835,10179,4531,72,13109,109748,15602,6503,166580,88244,10828,75311,61,60,2091,28542,166581,166582,166583,25034,166584,41832,5021,166585,9791,25586,166586,16959],"class_list":["post-371185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-20s","tag-american","tag-black","tag-business","tag-coffee","tag-counter","tag-drinks","tag-female","tag-food-preparation","tag-happy","tag-hispanic","tag-hot-drinks","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-male","tag-man","tag-multi-cultural","tag-multi-ethnic","tag-multi-racial","tag-person","tag-serving","tag-staff","tag-start-up","tag-takeaway","tag-team","tag-together","tag-twenties","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=371185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}