MILE HIGH CANADA

     This story took place last January, but trial only started this week, so it's still so relevant and still so appropriate for this blog! You have to love this.

     Anyway, according to a flight attendant, a Canadian couple on a Toronto-to-Halifax flight tried to hide their mid-flight sex acts by putting a coat over their laps. 39-year-old, Jason George Chase and 25-year-old, Alicia Elizabeth Lander were each charged with indecent acts after the alleged January 2014 mile-high incident on an Air Canada flight. 

     Lander's trial began this past Wednesday after she pleaded not guilty to the charges. Chase, on the other hand, changed his original not guilty plea to guilty, is due in court on March 27. After a year of investigating the incident, it's still not clear if the two knew each other before the frisky flight. The service director on the January 24 Air Canada flight, John Dunn, gave a graphic testimony of the whole encounter during Lander's trial on Wednesday. 

     He testified that about halfway through the two-hour flight, another passenger told Dunn that there was a couple going to "join the Mile High Club." The flight attendant found Lander and Chase in their seats with a coat covering their laps. Lander's hand was in Chase's lap and making an up-and-down gesture. He was went on to say that Lander's thighs and pink thong were also exposed. He said in court, "Her pants were down around her ankles. I said, 'I want you to stop this now. It's inappropriate.'" Dunn then demanded Lander to get dressed and asked her to put her breasts back inside her bra once she pulled her pants up. Dunn had to separate the couple for the rest of the flight. Un-be-lievable! 

     When the captain found out about the lovers' shenanigans, he had Mounties meet the landing plane at the gate. When police tried to escort Lander through the airport to an interview room, she became violent, which I'm sure did not help her case any. She knocked down a sliding door, hit a police officer and knocked some holes into the wall. The Mountie said she also reeked of alcohol and at one point even lunged at him as if to bite him. I have to say, I have no words on this incident except for AWESOME! I love ending the week with stories like this. 

     On top of the indecent acts charges, Lander was charged with assaulting an officer, committing an act of mischief and causing a public disturbance. Her trial will continue on March 3. From the sounds of it, the couple might not have known each other and I'm sure after Lander sobered up, she probably asked, "I did what?" That's what makes stories like these so awesome!