Two British women caused panic on an XL Airways flight from Greece to Manchester, England, last Friday when they attacked cabin staff with a vodka bottle and fought to open an emergency exit at 30,000 feet. One of the woman was screaming, "I want some fresh air!"The drunken pair had to be restrained with plastic handcuffs as astonished passengers looked on. The chartered Boeing 737 from the Greek island of Kos was forced to make an emergency landing in Germany where heavily armed police hauled the women, aged 26 and 27, away to the cheers of other travellers.
Both women were refused alcohol on the flight because they were drunk. One of them then took a bottle of vodka from her hand luggage and began fighting with the flight attendants. "It was a hell of a scene," said one passenger. "It was a nightmare. The crew were brilliant, wrestling them to the ground and slapping plastic cuffs on them." One attendant said the women were "very abusive and threatening."
As a safety precaution, the pilot put out a Mayday alert and diverted to Frankfurt-Main airport in Germany. The plane was on the ground there for 2 hours. Both women were allowed to return to the UK where police will decide whether to press charges including attempted assault and violating air traffic regulations. (Sky News)
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