Drunk easyJet passenger grabbed flight attendant by throat after he downed bottle of whiskey on plane

A DRUNK passenger grabbed a flight attendant by her throat after downing a litre bottle of whisky on a jet.

Passengers intervened when Colin Smith, 51, tried to hit the easyJet employee, one man putting him in a headlock.

STEVE ALLEN

Colin Smith, 51, tried to hit an easyJet employee, one man forced into putting him in a headlock[/caption]

Smith lost it when she told him to stop clambering over other people to get to the toilet as the plane made its descent.

James Gore, prosecuting, said: “He looked at her with a vacant stare and without any warning or provocation he grabbed her by the throat.

“He continued to lash out . . . and he would have hit her if he had not been restrained.”

Smith, of Hull, admitted assault and being drunk on the Malta to Manchester flight before the city’s and Salford JPs.

He will be sentenced at crown court later.