This time, it was an incident on a Jet2 flight from Belfast International Airport to the Canary Islands. A man began while being restrained in the cabin. Footage of the disturbance has, inevitably, gone viral on TikTok.
In the video, the man can be heard shouting loudly from his seat while other passengers gather around to try to intervene and calm him down. The disruptive passenger shouted, “You have to fasten your seatbelt..
. in the Lord of Jesus,” before letting out a loud yell. Airline staff have been praised for going “above and beyond” to stop the situation descending even further into chaos — and rightly so.
But can you imagine how disturbing it was for people stuck on that flight, especially for the children on board? Hurtling through the air at 30,000 feet, locked into the plane cabin — already a fairly cramped and claustrophobic space at the best of times — while some stranger has a noisy meltdown. Not a great way to start your holiday in the sun. It reminded me of another incident, which happened a few years ago, also on a Jet2 plane.
This time, it was a flight from London Stansted to Dalaman in Turkey. A 25-year-old woman, Chloe Haines, was presented with a £85,000 bill by Jet2 after she created a terrifying situation on board. According to an eyewitness, she sent a flight attendant “flying across the plane” and screamed: “I am going to kill everyone.
” Haines also tried to open the aircraft door and to force her way into the cockpit. The fli.
