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An unruly passenger broke free of his restraints onboard a Trans-Atlantic flight forcing the captain to divert the flight to an island off mainland Canada.
Other travellers stepped in to physically restrain the rogue passenger as the captain bought the Delta flight meant for Detroit, US, safely down.
The plane left from Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport, France, on Friday morning at around 10.30am local time.
Due to the wild scenes six hours into the flight the captain took an emergency diversion to Stephenville Dymond International Airport on the Canadian island of Newfoundland.
The passenger was removed from the flight by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and they took off for Detroit 90 minutes later.
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Footage shows Canadian police entering the plane to remove the passenger (wxyz.com)
Canadian Mounted Police arrested the man when the flight landed (wxyz.com)Footage of the suspect being led off the plane by officers has been posted online.
In the video he can be heard asking: "What am I under arrest for?"
Dena Haddad, a passenger on the flight, told WXYZ Detroit claimed that the man had been "violent and they wouldn't calm down."
A Canadian airport told the paper a passenger broke free of his restraints on the flight and had to be held down by several other heroic passengers.
The alleged incident occurred on a Delta flight (wxyz.com)"Delta has zero tolerance for unruly behaviour, especially when it potentially compromises the safety of our customers and flight crew. This unruly customer was removed at Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador, and remanded to the custody of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police," a spokesperson from Delta said.
Passengers running riot when the plane is in flight can put everyone's safety in jeopardy.
The man was led off the plane by Canadian police (wxyz.com)
Passengers filmed the incident (wxyz.com)Last week, footage circulated showing the terrifying moment a man yanked the door of an plane open inflight.
An Asiana Airlines jet door opened as it was coming in to land in Daegu, South Korea, on May 26, leaving passengers gripping onto their armrests for dear life.
It was later revealed that a man in his 30s, who was sitting in the emergency seat, yanked the door open when the aircraft was about 700 feet above the ground and about two to three minutes from landing in the city 150 miles south of Seoul.
The police arrested a male passenger once the plane landed and have said he confessed to opening the door but did not say why he did it.
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The plane carrying 194 passengers landed safely, but some panicked passengers showed symptoms of breathing difficulties and were immediately taken to a hospital.
Aviation expert Geoffrey Thomas of Airline Ratings described the incident as “very bizarre.”
He told CNN: "Technically, it’s not possible to open those doors in flight. It seems implausible that the door could be opened in the first place and then against the airstream technically impossible, but somehow or another it has happened."