This is the dramatic moment a “disruptive” Ryanair passenger slapped a flight attendant before being punched in the nose and pinned down by a holidaymaker who intervened.
Shocking footage shows a fight on board a flight from Liverpool to Tenerife last month, when a “disgruntled” tourist got into a fight with staff before forcing an early landing.
The steward is seen closing an overhead cabin before turning to look at a small crowd of people watching the situation nearby.
A man who had become “angry on board” then rushes to slap the steward before reopening the cabin, apparently to retrieve something from her.
When the slap occurs, a commotion reverberates through the cabin before one of the passengers lunges and punches the apparent assailant, creating further commotion.
The violent tourist has since been banned from Ryanair, the airline confirmed today.
The passenger in black appears to slap the steward in the face, causing an uproar among the passengers.
Another passenger lunges at him and punches him in the face before he can restrain him.
Staff and other passengers eventually intervened to prevent the fight from escalating, knocking the offending tourist to the ground.
The man was then arrested with his seat belt on, according to the Spaniard. media.
It was not clear what had started the fight, but Ryanair said “a passenger became angry on board,” it reported. The olive press.
The July 4 flight was eventually diverted to Santiago, in northwestern Galicia, after the crew called police to report the troublemaker.
Officials greeted the plane in Santiago de Compostela upon landing.
Police were urgently called to meet the plane on the runway and a doctor was also needed.
Air traffic controllers said the crew had tried to calm the situation but asked officers to meet the plane after its emergency landing in Santiago on the Spanish mainland.
The plane was a Ryanair Boeing 737.
The trip to Tenerife from Santiago usually takes just under three hours.
‘The crew of a flight from Liverpool to Tenerife South have contacted us about a disruptive passenger on board and have had to divert to Santiago de Compostela,’ air traffic controllers wrote on Twitter/X.
It is unclear whether any arrests have been made.
A Ryanair spokesperson told MailOnline today: ‘This flight from Liverpool to Tenerife (4 July) was diverted to Santiago after a passenger began behaving disruptively on board.
‘The crew requested police assistance in advance and the plane was met by local police upon arrival, who removed this passenger before the flight continued to Tenerife.
“This passenger has since been banned from flying with Ryanair.”
The plane made an emergency landing in Santiago de Compostela (pictured, Santiago de Compostela airport)
The aircraft was a Ryanair Boeing 737. (Pictured here is an archive image of a Ryanair Boeing 737)
Last month, a United Airlines passenger was separately filmed biting a piece of fabric from a flight attendant’s shirt during a mid-flight meltdown.
The woman was on United Airlines Flight 762 from Miami to Newark, but had barely made it off the runway when she began acting unruly.
The video recorded by another traveler begins after the crew has zip-tied her wrists and she is struggling with three of them.
Suddenly he bit into one of his shoulders, tearing off a piece of cloth and letting it float to the ground in front of the shocked plane.
“Stop touching me… let me go, I’m a fucked up girl, are you trying to kill me?” she screamed afterwards.
Witnesses said she threw punches and spit at people before being restrained, according to TMZ.
A passenger told her to stop shouting and she said: “Go back to Russia, old lady,” then uttered a series of expletives and said: “I’m going to kill you, bitch.”
United said the passenger “became aggressive and disruptive,” causing the diversion to Orlando and a lengthy delay.
They praised their staff for their professionalism “and for ensuring the safety of our customers and their fellow United employees.”
The Orlando Police Department said the woman was taken to the hospital for a medical evaluation and no arrests have yet been made.