On a recent flight to New York, a British JetBlue passenger became inebriated and verbally abused a flight attendant, and had to be restrained by four fellow passengers, a video has revealed.
The incident occurred Tuesday on a flight from Gatwick Airport to New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport.
In the footage, an aggressive man can be seen struggling with four other men who try to keep him still in a dark cabin hallway.
A woman, believed to be the drunk man’s girlfriend, begged one of the men to remove his hands from her face.
“Please get that thing off his face,” she begged.
As the drunken passenger continued to struggle, the man replied: “I can’t leave him alone.”
“No, no, don’t ask, don’t tell me to stop,” the woman retorted.
Eventually, another passenger told her to “stand back now.”
“Ben, Ben, stop fighting them. Stop fighting them,” she begged her belligerent boyfriend.
When the inebriated man tried to run away again, one of the four people holding him down warned the others, “Yeah, let him go.”
The woman was then heard saying “no” and crying.
A group of four then managed to move the man along the aisle to where two flight attendants were.
“Jesus Christ!” another passenger can be heard shouting, and another passenger can be heard saying, “Oh my God,” and the scene in question passes.
At one point, a man appeared to reassure the child, saying, “Don’t worry, I’m here.”
“Members came down from the back of the plane to help him. Eventually they knocked him to the floor,” said Grant Saunders, a hypnotist who was on board the disoriented plane.
“The man was drunk and was becoming loud and aggressive and moving around in his seat. His condition then started to deteriorate when the crew told him to calm down. Then he “He started wandering down the aisle and the crew members urged him to take a seat, after which he started becoming aggressive,” he recalled.
“I felt sorry for the elderly couple who were sitting around where the incident happened. The players got a round of applause as they left,” Saunders added.
Another passenger, Nick, also praised the men’s intervention.
“They managed to restrain him and prevent the plane from being diverted and causing major disruption to passengers and crew,” he said.
“Thanks to their brave and brilliant efforts, the plane landed without any problems. They need to be recognized by the airline,” he concluded.
JetBlue did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.
