A flight to Moscow was forced to make an emergency landing after an airline safety instructor started a massive fight on the plane.
Shocking video footage taken on board the plane shows a man dressed in a blue t-shirt, believed to be 44-year-old aviation safety instructor Ilya, being dragged to the back of the plane by an unnamed man.
A cameraman follows them as other passengers watch in horror at what happened on their routine flight from Anadyr, in Russia’s far east, to Moscow earlier this month.
The man then kicks Ilya to the ground before he can subdue him, while continuing to yell in Russian.
The video then shows another unnamed man being held by cabin crew, where he is then restrained with zip ties to tie his hands and legs behind his back.
Shocking video taken on board the plane shows a man dressed in a blue t-shirt, believed to be 44-year-old aviation safety instructor Ilya, being dragged to the back of the plane by an unnamed man.
The man then kicks Ilya to the ground before he can subdue him, as he continues to scream in Russian.
Another unnamed man was also restrained with zip ties to tie his hands and legs behind his back.
Russian media reports that witnesses claim the 44-year-old aviation safety instructor became extremely aggressive, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk.
According to first-hand accounts, Ilya was drunk on the flight and began fighting with his fellow airline safety instructors before other passengers became involved in the heated exchange.
The cabin crew then attempted to calm the situation, but Ilya attempted to punch a flight attendant, escalating the disagreement into a massive fight 30,000 feet in the sky.
Dzen.ruA Russian media outlet reports that Ilya was eventually subdued by the cabin crew with the help of two passengers.
However, because he kept verbally threatening the crew, the plane was forced to make an emergency landing after Rossiya Airlines decided it could not guarantee the safety of passengers and crew.
Ilya was handed over to the police, where a criminal case was opened against him accusing him of “hooliganism.”
It has also been claimed that Rossiya Airlines plans to go to court to recover damages from the troublemaker.