Qantas flight diverted because of drunk, Scotch-stealing passenger

By Patrick Begley
Updated September 21 2014 - 9:13am, first published 8:19am
Incident in the air: a police officer is seen on the plane after it was diverted.
Incident in the air: a police officer is seen on the plane after it was diverted.

A Sydney-bound Qantas flight has been diverted because of a drunk passenger who allegedly broke through all four sets of plastic handcuffs on the flight after repeated attempts to steal whisky.