According to an Irish Independent interview with passenger Stuart Wilson, the drunken passenger made the 4-hour journey from Manchester to Lanzarote a “flight from hell.”
Last month a Ryanair flight from Manchester to Lanzarote was once again disturbed by a drunken passenger causing trouble and Irish publication “Irish independent” have interviewed one passenger who called it a “flight from hell.”.
In the interview passenger Stuart Wilson from Donegal stated that the passenger was sleeping and “apart from their drinking and vaping” it was peaceful up to that point. However, Wilson stated that all hell broke loose when the passenger woke up and “went bananas.”.
“You could tell he’d been drinking a lot. I don’t know if drugs were used, but this was outrageous behaviour”, Wilson told Irish Independent.
“He knocked his girlfriend’s glasses off her head and started punching the baggage bins above his head. He punched the ceiling and the armrests, the seat in front.”.
“This guy was roaring, calling his girlfriend a slut, a slapper, a whore,” Wilson added.
In the interview with Irish Independent, Wilson continued to detail the passengers’ disruptive actions and stated that everyone onboard the flight tried to get him to stop, “there were kids on the plane… people were crying, they were so upset.”.
After realising that all attempts to get the passenger to calm down were failing, Stuart stood up and confronted him after which “the whole thing took off”, he said.
Despite plucking up the courage to stand up and say something he worried that getting too involved would get him into trouble. “I’m thinking if this does end up going bad, I’m the one who will get arrested, not being able to fly with Ryanair again”, Wilson explained.
According Mr. Wilson the Ryanair staff were successful in moving the troublesome passenger to the back of the plane but he later returned to his seat and “got into a conflict with another passenger. He pushed his head into another man’s head hard, so hard that the other man fell over”, he explained.
The whole affair lasted approximately an hour and once the plane had landed Mr. Wilson stated that he witnessed two men beating the passenger when he was leaving the Lanzarote airport.
A Ryanair spokesperson told the Irish Independent “We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience caused as a result of these passengers’ unruly behaviour.”
“The safety and well-being of our crew and passengers is Ryanair’s number one priority and we try to eradicate unruly behaviour onboard our aircraft.”
Read the Irish Independents full interview here: https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/i-had-to-act-as-airline-security-when-he-went-bananas-ryanair-passenger-tells-of-his-flight-from-hell/a761724268.html
