{"id":39303,"date":"2011-12-05T09:55:25","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T07:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=39303"},"modified":"2011-12-05T10:01:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T08:01:42","slug":"drunk-rim-executives-ground-air-canada-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/39303-drunk-rim-executives-ground-air-canada-flight.html","title":{"rendered":"Drunk RIM executives ground Air Canada flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Air Canada flight was forced to make an emergency landing after two of its passengers became so drunk and unruly; they had to be handcuffed to their seats.<\/p>\n<p>The pair, <a title=\"George Campbell\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/387113-George-Campbell\">George Campbell<\/a> and <a title=\"Paul Alexander\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/387115-Paul-Alexander\">Paul Alexander<\/a>, are executives at <a title=\"BlackBerry\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/342709-BlackBerry\">BlackBerry<\/a> maker <a title=\"Research in Motion (RIM)\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/313525-Research-in-Motion-%28RIM%29\">Research in Motion (RIM)<\/a>, and were ordered to pay a total of $71,757 (R574,414.44) on restitution fees for the inconvenience caused.<\/p>\n<p>The disruption caused the flight from Vancouver to Beijing to arrive 18 hours later than expected.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement from RIM, \u201cBased on the limited information available at this time, RIM has suspended the individuals involved pending further investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The two RIM executives have been banned from flying on Air Canada during an unspecified probation period.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at: <a title=\"Boy Genius Report news site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bgr.com\/2011\/12\/02\/drunk-rim-execs-handcuffed-to-seats-force-air-canada-to-make-emergency-landing\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boy Genius Report<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two RIM executives were handcuffed to their seats, following a drinking spree on an Air Canada flight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":26963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[97,937],"class_list":["post-39303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-blackberry","tag-research-in-motion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39307,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39303\/revisions\/39307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}