From NYPost: Fists were flying.
Shocking footage showed the moment a brawl broke out aboard a Jet2 flight from Antalya, Turkey, to Manchester, UK, forcing an emergency landing in Belgium.
Disturbing footage shows passengers exchanging blows in the aisle as onlookers swear, scream and plead with others not to “get involved.”
Jet2 reps told The Post, “Flight LS896 from Antalya to Manchester diverted to Brussels yesterday, due to the appalling behavior of two disruptive passengers.
“They were both offloaded by police in Brussels and the flight continued to Manchester.”
One witness said it was one of the most “distressing experiences” they’d ever had, according to the Sun, reporting that an allegedly inebriated male passenger was “making racist remarks” before he “escalated” his offensive tirade.
“Although he had been drinking on the flight, he was fully aware of his surroundings, knew exactly what he was saying, and was oriented throughout,” the witness claimed.
After the man was “unable to purchase cigarettes,” he “became confrontational, intimidating and openly racist toward the Pakistani passengers around him,” the witness reported.
After flight attendants struggled to no avail, a brawl erupted at 30,000 feet.
“At one point it became very physical,” the witness recalled. “Passengers were distressed. People were frightened. The atmosphere turned chaotic.”
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