A federal judge ruled last week that a British airline passenger must pay $20,638 for interfering with the flight crew on a United Airlines flight between London and Newark, New Jersey on March 1. According to the Department of Justice’s account,

The man had been “verbally and physically aggressive” on a United flight from London to Newark, prompting the plane to land in Bangor, Maine, prosecutors said.

A British man who wreaked havoc on a United Airlines flight, forcing the flight crew to divert their landing location, must pay over $20,000 to the airline, prosecutors announced. The charges stem from a March 1 flight that departed from London,

The Newark-bound plane, which took off from London Heathrow, was forced to make an emergency landing in Maine after staff were threatened.

Repeated attempts to calm the crazed Englishman down failed and the pilot was forced to divert the Newark-bound United Airlines flight to Bangor, Maine, where the unruly passenger was met by law enfor