PostedMay 17, 2022, 5:08 p.m.
A plane that was flying from Manchester to Faro, Portugal, had to make an unscheduled stop in France because a group of inebriated passengers were causing chaos on board.
A Ryanair flight from Manchester, England, to Faro, Portugal, was diverted to France’s Nantes airport on Monday night after five drunk Englishmen disturbed other passengers, it has been learned. Tuesday, with the Border Police. The plane was diverted “following the assault of a passenger by other passengers. In the end, there was no filing of a complaint, the person took over the flight, ”explained police commander Pierre-Yves Collin. “On the other hand, the five Englishmen, who were in fairly substantial manifest drunkenness, were disembarked, because they were messing up the plane. They were placed in sobering up,” he added.
The five English, three women and two men, who are between 24 and 36 years old, “should not have embarked in England, because obviously they had started the vodka in the morning”, indicated Pierre-Yves Collin. “Drunk people attacking passengers are likely to endanger a flight,” he explained, adding that the diversion of a plane to an airport due to drunken passengers was “ rare”.