A Singapore Airlines business class passenger has been sentenced to three weeks in jail for flashing a flight attendant. The man, who had consumed two glasses of champagne prior to the incident, fails to live up to his name: Brilliant Angjaya.
On January 23rd, 23-year old Angjaya exposed himself on a flight from China to Singapore. He tossed back a couple of glasses of champagne with his meal, fell asleep, and then got up to visit the lav. That’s when he decided to whip out his… phone. Back at his seat, he turned on the video function and pulled out something else to see a crewmember’s reaction.
He unzipped his trousers, and concealed himself at first under a blanket. When a female flight attendant approached with his pre-arrival meal, Angjaya removed the blanket, exposing himself fully to her. She quickly turned her gaze away, placed the meal on the tray, and left the seat. But she noticed the phone’s camera positioned towards her, and she decided to report the incident.
When confronted by the inflight supervisor, Angjaya initially denied filming the incident but later admitted it and surrendered his phone, which contained the video evidence. The flight’s captain notified authorities and he was arrested on arrival in Singapore.
Charged with sexual exposure, the man pled guilty on March 24. Prosecutors initially sought a sentence of four to six weeks, arguing that his intoxication, that the act occurred onboard an aircraft and targeted a public transport worker, and that Angaya initially denied it made the act worse.
In his defense, Angjaya claimed to have been emotionally distressed from leaving China permanently after a five-month study program, said he drank to sleep not to get drunk, and that he apologized to crew admitting the stupidity of his actions.
In sentencing Angjaya to three weeks in jail, the court disagreeed with the defense characterization of the incident as merely a “highly inappropriate prank.” Beyond the jail term, he’s banned from Singpaore Airlines from life and publicity around the case makes the Indonesian man somewhat persona non grata status within Singapore.
Ultimately three weeks seems about right?
(HT: Live and Let’s Fly)