A belt of liquor doesn’t count.
Police in the UK hauled an intoxicated passenger off an international flight during a spat over an unfastened seatbelt, as seen in footage taking off online.
“They tried to reason with him but he was having none of it,” fly-witness Carmela Colasurdo, who filmed the wild incident, told Storyful.
The disruption reportedly occurred September 13 aboard a flight from Manchester to Ibiza, Spain.
The passengers had reportedly boarded the flight on time, but were “then told we would be delayed due to a passenger not cooperating with the crew,” the videographer recalled. “He was intoxicated and was refusing to fasten his seatbelt.”
Things escalated to the point that police had to be called.
It reportedly took them a whopping two hours from them to arrive and haul the hellion off the plane.
Accompanying footage shows the authorities carrying the inebriated miscreant by his arms and legs down the aisle, after which they “carried him down the steps and put him into the back of a police van,” according to Colasurdo.
Colasurdo said that the booze-fueled fiasco was “not what you need when en route to Ibiza.”
Unfortunately, it has seemingly been a banner year for drunken disruptions on aircraft.
Earlier this month, a woman was hauled off a flight from Australia to New Zealand and charged after drunkenly dancing in the aisle while the aircraft was taxiing.
Last month, an intoxicated passenger had to be restrained during an Emirates flight from Newcastle in the UK to Dubai after he became “increasingly loud and disruptive” during the flight.
When a crew member refused to serve him more alcohol, the liquor-logged lout called her a “stupid b–h” and then began provoking a nearby passenger, saying he would “wipe the smile” off their face.
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