Editing United Airlines (section)

=== Flight 976 ===
{{Main|United Airlines Flight 976}}
United Airlines Flight 976 was a regularly scheduled flight from Ministro Pistarini International Airport, [[Buenos Aires]] to John F. Kennedy International Airport, [[New York City]] on October 19, 1995. Prior to takeoff, an investment banker became disruptive after consuming two glasses of champagne, began threatening crew members and attempted to pour his own drinks, against airline and federal regulations. After takeoff, the banker was served two more glasses of red wine, after which the crew refused to serve him more alcohol due to his apparent intoxication. When his requests for more alcohol were denied, he pushed over a female flight attendant, climbed onto a [[service trolley]], took off his pants and defecated, used linen napkins as toilet paper, wiped his hands on various service counters and tracked feces throughout the aircraft,<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 23, 1995 |title=Complaint – United States of America v. Gerald Finneran |url=https://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/first-class-drunk-loves-liquor-linen |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201019040415/https://www.thesmokinggun.com/file/first-class-drunk-loves-liquor-linen |archive-date=October 19, 2020 |access-date=January 17, 2022 |publisher=[[United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York]] |via=[[The Smoking Gun]]}}</ref> after which he entered a lavatory and locked himself in.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Stasi |first=Linda |date=November 2, 1995 |title=Boorish biz flier rode no class |work=[[New York Daily News]] |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/boorish-biz-flier-rode-no-class-article-1.708654 |url-status=live |access-date=January 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201040614/http://www.nydailynews.com/archives/news/boorish-biz-flier-rode-no-class-article-1.708654 |archive-date=December 1, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Stark |first=Michelle |date=February 13, 1996 |title=Passenger who disrupted flight to pay damages |work=[[Tampa Bay Times]] |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1996/02/13/passenger-who-disrupted-flight-to-pay-damages/ |url-status=live |access-date=2023-11-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027133607/https://apnews.com/article/7de0d25edb271d51200479ea23077782 |archive-date=October 27, 2020}}</ref>
A request to divert to [[Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport]] in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico]], was denied due to the security risks created by the presence of the [[President of Portugal]] [[Mário Soares]], [[Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship|Argentinian foreign minister]] [[Guido di Tella]] and their security details on the flight. The disruptive passenger was arrested by the FBI after landing in New York and charged with interfering with a flight crew and threatening a flight attendant. He later pleaded guilty to the latter charge and was fined $5,000 (having previously agreed to reimburse the airline for its cleanup costs and all the other passengers their airfare, which amounted to nearly $50,000) and given two years' probation.<ref name="Chicago Tribune story">{{Cite news |last=Borg |first=Gary |date=May 15, 1996 |title=Unruly Air Passenger Gets Fine, Probation |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1996/05/15/unruly-air-passenger-gets-fine-probation/ |access-date=October 13, 2020 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201032308/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-05-15/news/9605150125_1_frequent-flyer-program-airliner-aires-to-new |archive-date=December 1, 2017}}</ref> The incident was later dubbed the worst ever case of [[air rage]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Reed |first=Dan |date=February 5, 2015 |title=Conrad Hilton III's Meltdown at 35,000 Feet Renews Talk of the Perplexing Phenomenon of Air Rage |work=[[Forbes (magazine)|Forbes]] |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielreed/2015/02/05/conrad-hilton-iiis-meltdown-at-35000-ft-renews-talk-of-the-perplexing-phenomenon-of-air-rage/ |url-status=live |access-date=October 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201013230849/https://www.forbes.com/sites/danielreed/2015/02/05/conrad-hilton-iiis-meltdown-at-35000-ft-renews-talk-of-the-perplexing-phenomenon-of-air-rage/ |archive-date=October 13, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Frauenfelder |first=Mark |author-link=Mark Frauenfelder |date=November 25, 2015 |title="Worst ever" air rage passenger jailed for drunken rampage |work=[[Boing Boing]] |url=https://boingboing.net/2015/11/25/worst-ever-air-rage-passen.html |url-status=live |access-date=October 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200831124829/https://boingboing.net/2015/11/25/worst-ever-air-rage-passen.html |archive-date=August 31, 2020}}</ref>