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https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/b ... s-1678752918:59, 22 JUN 2019Updated20:56, 22 JUN 2019
Essex 'explosion': RAF Typhoon jets cause sonic boom scrambling to intercept Jet2 Stansted plane
Essex Police and Stansted Airport are investigating after
the Titan Airways A321 for Jet2 for Dalaman, Turkey,
had to return to the Bishops Stortford base.
RAF Typhoon jets were scrambled to intercept a Jet2 plane near Stansted Airport
tonight after a "drunk passenger" allegedly tried to open the aircraft door.
The jets dashed south from RAF Coningsby, Lincolnshire, to escort the plane back to the airport.
One passenger exclusively told Mirror Online cabin crew
pinned the woman to the floor
after she had tried to hit and scratch them 45 minutes after take-off.
An RAF Voyager also departed from RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, it is said.
A 25-year-old woman has since been arrested
on suspicion of two assaults and endangering an aircraft, BBC News says.
A fellow passenger told Mirror Online:
"I was on the flight to Dalaman from Stansted and, after 45 minutes of being in the air,
this lady gets called to the front of the plane
and she starts shouting and screaming and runs to the airplane door.
"Cabin crew grabbed her to stop
she starts scratching them hitting them,
she then got pinned to the floor by cabin crew and passengers,
a passenger even sat on her.
"She kept getting up and running back towards the door,
she had six people sitting her
we had to fly back to Stansted for the police to get her."
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