/ 13 January 1999

PASSENGERS JAILED

A KENYAN court Wednesday sentenced three foreigners to three months in prison each for smoking and causing a disturbance aboard a Kenya Airways flight from Lagos to Nairobi. Aboubakar Omar Hussein and Ramadhan Faiz Abeid of Tanzania and Nalillakaren Appu of India were charged with committing the offences on Tuesday aboard Kenya Airways flight KQ-433. They were accused of shouting at other passengers and disobeying an order from the captain to calm down, posing a danger to the safety of the aircraft.