{"id":3017,"date":"2014-02-27T02:01:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T10:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=3017"},"modified":"2014-02-27T02:01:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T10:01:27","slug":"passenger-on-manila-to-los-angeles-flight-charged-after-allegedly-punching-flight-attendant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/02\/27\/passenger-on-manila-to-los-angeles-flight-charged-after-allegedly-punching-flight-attendant\/","title":{"rendered":"Passenger on Manila to Los Angeles flight charged after allegedly punching flight attendant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u2014<\/span>A man who allegedly punched a flight attendant on a Los Angeles-bound jetliner has been charged with interfering with a flight crew.<\/p>\n<p>The FBI says 53-year-old Edgar Nonga of Lakewood was charged with the federal offence on Monday. His bail was set at $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say Nonga got drunk during a Philippine Airlines flight from Manila to LA over the weekend and got angry when he was refused more drinks.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say Nonga swore at crew members and twice punched a flight attendant<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u2014<\/span>including once in the face. The crew, with help from at least five passengers, restrained him and he was arrested Sunday morning when the plane landed.<\/p>\n<p>He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.<\/p>\n<p>His attorney, David Sutton, declined to immediately comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES\u2014A man who allegedly punched a flight attendant on a Los Angeles-bound jetliner has been charged with interfering with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news-w","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}