\n The September 4 flight, which was taking passengers from Bournemouth to Girona, had to make an ’emergency’ diversion to Toulouse, after a ‘huge brawl’ started mid-air.\n<\/p>\n
\n Passengers described the whole incident as ‘pure chaos’, adding that ‘everyone was petrified’ and that multiple people were having panic attacks on board.\n<\/p>\n
\n One witness said: “The whole event was very traumatic.”\n<\/p>\n
\n It has been revealed that the man, who ended up being restrained,\u00a0had attempted to open the emergency exit doors mid-air, according to witnesses.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n One witness reported that the man had said “I want to go” before attempting to open the doors on either side.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n This is when other passengers got involved and began to restrain him, as he reportedly spat and ‘swung at’ people.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n Man escorted off plane (Image: Submitted) One witness said: “It wasn\u2019t\u00a0a random fight, the man had gone into the toilet and then afterwards was trying opening one of the emergency exit doors, he then went to try the other shouting \u201cI want to go\u201d.\n<\/p>\n
\n “That\u2019s when a huge brawl started with a lot more than one man trying to get him away from the doors, there was a big punch up and he then finally got taken down in the isle and was pinned to the floor where they then managed to get a seatbelt extender round his ankles to stop him kicking.”\n<\/p>\n
\n French media,\u00a0La D\u00e9p\u00eache, published a report outlining the ‘eventful stopover’, adding that thirteen French police officers were mobilized to subdue the man.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
\n The report also included a photo of the man being taken off the aircraft by police.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n
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