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Shock moment ‘drunk' passenger hauled off TUI flight by cops after PUNCHING cabin crew & screaming ‘plane's going crash'
Shock moment ‘drunk' passenger hauled off TUI flight by cops after PUNCHING cabin crew & screaming ‘plane's going crash'

The Sun

time29-05-2025

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  • The Sun

Shock moment ‘drunk' passenger hauled off TUI flight by cops after PUNCHING cabin crew & screaming ‘plane's going crash'

THIS is the shocking moment a drunk maniac was arrested after going berserk and allegedly smacking an air hostess in the face. Footage shows the madman being restrained on board a TUI plane from Spanish holiday hotspot Gran Canaria to Birmingham in the early hours of Tuesday morning. 3 3 The boozed-up brute was led away in handcuffs after appearing to strike a cabin crew member in an hour-long fit of rage, which left air hostesses in tears. Flight attendants even attempted to use a 'restraint kit' to subdue the holidaymaker, but were unable to bring him under control even after the plane had landed. It forced terrified crew members to scream for help while 220 passengers, including young kids, watched on. Dramatic clips obtained by The Sun shows the mayhem unfold as cabin crew frantically run through the aisles pleading for the emergency services. A witness told The Sun: 'It all kicked off just before 1am as we were landing in Birmingham from Las Palmas. 'When they slammed the brakes, he was shouting that the plane was going to crash. He started shouting at the hostesses and got up to go to the toilet compartment. 'The stewardess told him to sit back down, which he did, but then he got back up for the second time and went to the same place. 'There was a lot of screaming and shouting between him and the crew, and then he punched an air hostess in the nose. 'One minute he was calm, then he was throwing blows. He was extremely erratic.' A number of passengers tried to intervene to help the air hostesses as the situation became violent. The witness continued: 'Air hostesses were screaming for police in panic - they were shook up and crying. 'People had to tell them to stop screaming because it was scaring the kids - it was a nightmare.' Clapping and cheering rang through the plane after West Midlands Police officers finally got onboard. A witness told The Sun: 'The intoxicated guy put his hands up and said, 'Arrest me'. "But then he resisted arrest." The drunk male was forced down onto other passengers by cops who quickly surrounded and cuffed him after he resisted arrest. The drunken yob was finally led away from the aircraft in handcuffs and chucked in a police van before passengers were able to exit, an hour after the ordeal began. We previously revealed how a British woman was dragged off a flight after allegedly assaulting passengers and "making a bomb threat". And last year a "flight from hell" did a U-turn after just 36 minutes in the air, when a "mass brawl" broke out between holidaymakers. TUI and West Midlands Police were asked to comment. 3

Brits are labelled 'wild animals' as Ibiza resident films two-hour flight from hell from Luton with 'screaming and kids hitting each other' and pleads: 'We don't want this kind of tourism'
Brits are labelled 'wild animals' as Ibiza resident films two-hour flight from hell from Luton with 'screaming and kids hitting each other' and pleads: 'We don't want this kind of tourism'

Daily Mail​

time19-05-2025

  • Daily Mail​

Brits are labelled 'wild animals' as Ibiza resident films two-hour flight from hell from Luton with 'screaming and kids hitting each other' and pleads: 'We don't want this kind of tourism'

An easyJet passenger from Ibiza pleaded for her island to stop letting in 'wild animals' as she shared raucous footage of a flight from Luton to the Spanish isle. Erika Barrachina posted footage of rowdy tourists, insisting they should not have been allowed on the plane in the first place. 'My flight from London to Ibiza was absolutely horrible,' she captioned her post, showing tourists banging and chanting on board the two and a half hour flight. 'I was scared. A plane full of real English animals.' 'Everyone standing, screaming, guys hitting each other, drinking bottles of alcohol one after the other and stopping the flight attendants from doing their job. Real hell.' Passengers could be seen on board banging on luggage compartments above them and yelling: 'Come on Ibiza.' She alleged that she had seen passengers drinking before the flight took off, insisting 'this shouldn't be allowed'. 'They shouldn't let rabble like this get on a plane or sell alcohol on board. We don't want this type of tourism in Ibiza, they should stay at home,' she told Diario de Ibiza. Erika, who posts online as Kiribarrachi, told local media she had complained to the flight attendants. She claimed the two male air stewards and an air stewardess on board had asked some passengers for their documentation but were met with shouts of 'F*** off.' 'I had a very bad time and the flight attendants unable to do anything because how do you control these wild animals inside a plane. There has to be a solution.' 'I'm not afraid of flying because I've flown around the world but I had a panic attack because it was like being in a pub, in a nightclub, but in the air,' she added. 'This video is the just the end because I couldn't film what happened during the journey,' she said. She said they were let off the plane after reaching Ibiza airport and identifying themselves. It was not immediately clear if police had been waiting to board the plane when it arrived. Commenting on the video, one user wrote: 'As an English person I have to say there are many of us who do not condone this behaviour. 'So much so that when I lived in Spain myself, I used to tell people I was French.' Another, writing in Spanish, shared a similar experience: 'My worst flight experience was the 5-hour flight from Manchester to Tenerife. 'Everyone was completely drunk and fighting with each other. The pilot threatened to land in Lanzarote. It was horrible. They shouldn't sell alcohol on flights.' Erika posted the footage on Saturday, a day before thousands of people marched in Canary Islands capitals as part of a new anti-mass tourism protest. Locals in the Balearic Islands, which include Ibiza, are due to stage their protest on June 15. Demonstrations across Spain continue to gather pace as locals decry what they call 'overtourism' - the catering of local industry to foreign visitors, affecting jobs and house prices, and the arrival of noisy, drunken tourists. While the Spanish government has introduced a rent cap mechanism, only few regional governments - like that in Barcelona, where it led to slightly reduced rents - have applied it. Government measures have not proven enough to stop protests over the past two years and experts say the situation likely won't improve soon, with more demonstrations expected in the coming months.

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