How in the world are no charges being filed? If you or I were caught smoking in the bathroom of a plane in mid-air, we would receive up to XX years in prison and up to a $xxx,xxx fine. We’ve all seen those signs in the bathrooms...
I guess the moral of the story is, if you are caught puffing a cigarette on an airplane, then simply pretend to be blowing up your shoe, and then you’ll get to walk from everything? Is it me, or is EVERYTHING backwards?
DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY. The same reason no charges are filed when an American embassy employee in an Arab country is caught drinking alcohol in public, even though the masses are clamoring for him to get the same harsh treatment a random local guy would get.
“How in the world are no charges being filed?”
Diplomatic immunity, no doubt.