Former BlackBerry executive George Campbell has been deported to his native Scotland after an infamous incident of rowdy drunkenness on an Air Canada flight.

Campbell and fellow former corporation vice-president Paul Alexander Wilson ended up forcibly restrained after setting out from Toronto aboard an Air Canada flight to Beijing on business for Research in Motion (now named BlackBerry) on Nov. 28, 2011.

The pair pleaded guilty to mischief and were ordered to pay $38,878 restitution each after their boozy antics forced the flight to land in Vancouver. They spent two days in custody and both were fired.

Despite their guilty pleas, they sought to appeal their conviction and have the restitution order lifted. The B.C. Court of Appeal turned them down earlier this year.

Campbell, then 45, was born in Scotland and in Canada on a work permit at the time of the incident. His monthly salary was $12,000. The father of three had no criminal record.

Wilson, then 38, was also born in Scotland, but had permanent residency status in Canada. The married father of one earned $10,000 monthly and also had no criminal record.

“Mr. Campbell was deported from Canada, but has obtained work in Scotland in a similar position to his employment at RIM,” the B.C. Court of Appeal decision states. “Mr. Wilson found short term contract work with a Taiwanese company.”

In a statement of facts entered in court at the time of their conviction, court heard the two men were drinking before and during the flight, and downed sleeping pills to help them sleep.

“At some point during the flight, Mr. Campbell began singing and banging on his seat,” the ruling says. “At one point, he was lying on his stomach and kicking the floor, much like a child in a temper tantrum.”

Things only got worse, according to the court document.

“Mr. Wilson attempted to get out of his seat when, instead, he fell forward into a flight attendant and passenger,” the court document states. “Both men were described as unruly and belligerent, yelling and swearing at passengers and crew alike. At one point, Mr. Wilson pushed a flight attendant.”

Soon, things degenerated from bad to ugly.

“Both men were restrained with plastic restraints,” the court document states.

At this point, the two ex-executives behaved like wild animals caught in a trap.

“One of them managed to get out of the restraints; and Mr. Wilson appeared to have chewed his way out of the plastic restraints,” the document states. “Tape was used to restrain them.”

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The boozy mid-air mis-adventure was taxing on all involved, the document states.

“The airplane captain said he had never seen anything like this in 38 years of flying,” the document states. “One of the flight attendants took time off work as a result of stress caused to her by the incident.”

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