Fellow Passenger facts

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A schizophrenic Canadian man who beheaded and then partially cannibalized a fellow passenger on a greyhound bus in 2008, was institutionalised for 9 years and then given an absolute discharge and released.

David Kootook, a 14 year old Inuit boy who survived for 23 days in -40 degree weather after a plane crash in the Arctic. He refused offers by the pilot to eat the body of a fellow passenger and died of starvation 23 days later. Upon rescue, the pilot said "Welcome to the camp of a cannibal."

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1. After KLM 4805 was diverted to the island of Tenerife, tour guide Robina van Lanschot chose not to reboard her flight because she lived on Tenerife. Her plane would end up crashing into Pan Am 1736 in the worst plane crash in history. None of van Lanschot's fellow passengers survived.

2. A 20 year old Bill Murray was convicted for trying to smuggle 4.5 kilos of marijuana through an airport. He was caught after joking to a fellow passenger that he had explosives in his carry on.

3. William Cohn, a shopowner from Miami who traveled the world for free by posing as a Pan Am flight attendant in the early 1980s. He was caught after passengers and fellow employees had written several letters of commendation on Cohn’s behalf.

4. The 1991 Oceanos cruise ship disaster, in which the captain and senior crew jumped ship, without alarm or announcement, during a violent storm. Leaving the entertainment staff to call mayday and organise the rescue of the majority of fellow passengers before the ship sank.

5. Mary Dohey, a flight attended who saved the lives of over 200 people when a potential bomber hijacked a plane. Over the course of 8 hours she managed to convince the hijacker to release every passenger on the plane, turning down her own release out of concern for her fellow crew members.

6. In 2012 a Greyhound bus rider beheaded and ate a fellow passenger because God told him that the victim was an alien.

7. A man who decapitated a fellow bus passenger because he thought the other was a space alien has been set free and is officially considered to be "not a threat".

8. About Vince Li, who now goes by the name Will Baker, beheaded and cannibalized a fellow passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada. 11 years later and he is walking free.

9. A man stabbed, beheaded, and cannibalized a fellow bus passenger only to be released from a mental hospital seven years later, in May 2015.

10. Nando Parrado (who survived a 1972 plane crash by eating fellow dead passengers) is a motivational speaker.