A man has been hailed a hero after he restrained a?passenger who stripped down to her underwear and tried to enter the cockpit twice.??
Phillip O¡¯Brien, 35, was travelling?from?Larnaca,?Cyprus?to?Manchester, UK,?on a?Jet2?flight last week with his family, when a woman in her 30s walked up the aisle in just her underwear shortly after take-off.??
The disruptive passenger?shouted "Allahu Akbar" as she ran through the plane?trying to force her way into the cockpit.?She also claimed that her parents were members of the terror group,?ISIS.?
After staff were unable to restrain her, O¡¯Brien stepped in to help secure her to a chair while the flight was diverted to Paris.??
Shouting "Allahu Akbar," she suggested that she had access to explosives on the aircraft, and went as far as asking the children she was with if they were "ready to die".
"Everything was normal, and then shortly after take-off a woman walked up the aisle naked and banged on the cockpit door shouting 'Allahu Akbar'.?As you can imagine everyone was sh**ing themselves,"?O¡¯Brien told The Mirror.?
"I spoke to staff and said, 'Why have you not put her to the floor?'.?They said, 'We're not able to'. I said, 'Well I am'.?So when the woman went to the cockpit again I took control, took her to the ground and at that point the pilot did an emergency landing at Paris," he added.?
?Jet2 said the Larnaca-Manchester flight was diverted to Paris in the early hours of Tuesday so a "disruptive passenger could be offloaded".??
Last year, a man from Ohio, U.S., was?duct-taped?to his seat by other passengers on a Frontier Airlines flight for allegedly assaulting and groping flight attendants on the plane.?
The incident took place on a flight?from Philadelphia to Miami.?
Maxwell Berry, 22, of Norwalk, Ohio, was arrested at Miami International Airport and charged with three counts of misdemeanour battery.?However, authorities said they would not pursue federal felony charges, according to an arrest report provided by the Miami-Dade Police Department.
The cellphone footage of the incident shows?Berry telling a flight attendant to "shut the f--- up," before insisting his "parents are worth more than f---ing two million goddamn?dollars."
The video also shows Berry trying to throw a punch at a flight attendant and a member of the crew wrapping duct tape around his body and head.?
The?passenger?reportedly ordered three alcoholic drinks and brushed one cup against a female flight attendant "back side inappropriately" as he ordered another drink, a report from the Miami-Dade Police Department?obtained by?The Washington Post?said.
At some point, Berry spilt a drink on his shirt, went to the bathroom and came out shirtless, the report said.
He was then seen?wandering about the cabin for 15 minutes before groping the chests of the two female flight attendants; and then punching in the face the male flight attendant who had been charged with monitoring Barry¡¯s antics,?WPVI-TV?reported.??
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