EasyJet passenger forces emergency landing after ‘threatening to stab a crew member’ in mid-flight outburst
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Passengers claim the teenage girl broke a plane door handle and shouted abuse at cabin crew. An easyJet flight to London was forced to divert to Italy for an emergency landing after a teenage girl threatened cabin crew and tried to open the plane door, according to reports.
Flight EZY8556 left Antalya, Turkey at 11.20pm local time on 27 December for a four-hour journey to London Gatwick, but just over two hours in it was diverted to Bari, Italy, data from FlightAware shows. A passenger who was on the flight claimed that the plane landed in Italy due to security reasons after a teenage girl caused chaos onboard.
“The little girl went to the toilet but the older girl followed her to the toilet. "The girl kept having outbursts saying ‘get out of my face’, and she wouldn’t let her out. “Then the mum went down and the teenage girl was shouting in her face,” Nadine claimed. “The mum and the little girl were crying so the crew walked the girl and her mum down to the to the front of the plane to get away from her.".
The incident escalated after cabin crew asked the teenager to sit back down, but the 16-year-old allegedly started to “shout abuse” at the crew members, Nadine told the outlet. "She was trying to open the door and she broke the handle. The crew members pulled her away and restrained her,” she said, with The Sun adding that she was referring to the plane door at the back of the aircraft.
