A man whose behaviour on a Hawaiian Airlines flight to South Korea forced it to return to Honolulu has been ordered to pay the air carrier more than $259,000.
Kyong Chol Kim was sentenced on Wednesday to six months in jail for interfering with flight attendants and crew members on the flight in February.
Prosecutors say the 48-year-old South Korean man drank a bottle of whiskey before the flight and later bothered a child seated next him.
Prosecutors say he lunged at a flight attendant after the employee confronted him about his behaviour.
U.S. service members on board helped restrain Kim as the flight turned around.
