Trouble in the air for rock stars
Singer and actress Courtney Love is not the first music star to land in trouble after an alleged airborne incident.
Former Stone Roses frontman Ian Brown was sentenced to four months in prison in 1998 after he was found guilty of threatening behaviour.
The star – who has since bounced back to revive his chart career – threatened stewardess Christine Cooper and hammered on the cockpit door as his British Airways flight began to descend into Manchester Airport.
The court was told how Brown – who eventually served two months in Manchester’s Strangeways prison – had threatened to chop her hands off, which he claimed was said as a joke.
Hong Kong-based airline Cathay Pacific banned rock act Oasis for life after an incident involving bad boy frontman Liam Gallagher the same year.
He and his entourage were reported to be drunk, smoking, swearing and abusing passengers on a flight to Australia.
The captain left his cockpit in an attempt to calm them down at one stage in the flight.
REM guitarist Peter Buck stood trial over an alleged air rage incident of which he was cleared last year.
He had been accused of attacking two cabin staff, covering them in yoghurt and trying to steal a knife.
He was arrested after a flight to London to appear in a concert in Trafalgar Square in 2001.
Coincidentally, REM’s singer Michael Stipe is a close friend of Courtney Love.
