A soldier helped cabin crew on a Thomsonfly flight headed for Cardiff Airport following a violent air rage incident. According to a report in the Evening Post, 29 year old Leighton James helped cabin crew after a man became aggressive and threatening on the flight, and hit one of the flight attendants.
Mr James told the newspaper that he had spotted the trouble-maker at the airport check-in, where he immediately got the impression that the man had been drinking. Soon after the flight took off, problems began as the passenger began yelling and frightened passengers started congregating at the rear of the aircraft.
Flight attendants were unable to control the man and Mr James noticed that a stewardess was sobbing, after being hit by the passenger. With the help of another passenger, he restrained the out-of-control man.
The irate passenger was restrained for the remainder of the flight, forced to lie flat on several seats. Although the plane continued its journey to Cardiff, it was given priority to land, in order to hand the unnamed passenger over to authorities as soon as possible. Thomsonfly confirmed that an ‘incident’ had indeed occurred, but refused to comment further
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