‘Screaming’ Brit passenger sparks emergency landing after hammering on cockpit door on Jet2 flight to Manchester
A HYSTERICAL passenger had to be restrained by cabin crew after “hammering on the cockpit door”.
The passenger began “screaming and banging on the cockpit door” on a Jet2 flight from Istanbul to Manchester on Wednesday evening, witnesses said.
Crew on the Boeing 747 activated an emergency situation on, and had to restrain the man – who had been drinking alcohol before the outburst, according to local reports.
Some of the flight’s 220 passengers also had to step in and help pin the man down, as he hammered on the cockpit door – behind which the pilot was sitting.
The plane scrambled to land at the Ioannis Kapodistrias Airport in Corfu, Greece – despite the country’s airports being shuttered to incoming Turkish planes due to coronavirus restrcitions.
The passenger was forced to disembark, where he was arrested.
The man is currently in isolation as he awaits the results of a coronavirus test.
He will then be taken to a prosecutor before returning to the UK.
Despite the coronavirus pandemic, incidents of air rage have still been occurring across the skies, usually caused by drunken passangers.
In May, a huge brawl erupted after an “impatient” passenger bumped into people on a flight to Russia.
Footage from the time showed two men grappling in the aisle of a sparsely-populated plane as members of the crew try to intervene.
One man is pushing the other onto a seat and repeatedly punching him, seemingly in the head and torso.
A witness said one of the men had stood up and walked down the aisle on landing, ignoring social distancing guidelines that had been in force throughout the flight.
“Almost immediately after landing, he jumped up and headed for the exit,” the woman told Komsomolskaya Pravda.
“He walked quickly between the rows, crashing into seated people.
“One man told him ‘Watch out!’”
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The pair reportedly then began a foul-mouthed exchange that led to the flight.
“Flight attendants tried to calm them but it didn’t help much,” the witness said.
“Those two were so aggressive that other passengers were simply afraid to go near them.”