This is the shocking moment a passenger was punched in the face by an airport worker after screaming homophobic abuse at Easyjet staff.
The man, who has not yet been identified, was heard shouting abuse at the airline’s staff after apparently being refused entry to the plane.
He then turns his ire at his fellow passengers and starts threatening them for ‘staring’ at him during his tirade.
The incident took place at Manchester Airport as passengers boarded a flight to Crete, though a spokesperson for Manchester Airports Group declined to comment on the matter.
‘You’re a ripoff artist, you’re a f***** – I’ll knock your f***ing hat off’, the man threatened as a flight attendant was seen trying to calm him down.
‘Come on then, are we gonna have a little f***ing scrap or what you f***ing f*****, you little k***head’, he then said, adding: ‘I paid three, four hundred quid for the flight and you’re telling me I’m not allowed on the flight.’
The attendant calmly asks him: ‘Can you stay here for a few minutes, sir?’
But this appears to rattle the man even more, as he responds: ‘You f***ing little k***head, I’ve paid for the flight.’
The man, who has not yet been identified, was heard shouting abuse at the airline’s staff after apparently being refused entry to the plane
He then turns his ire at his fellow passengers and starts threatening them for ‘staring’ at him during his tirade
He was heard screaming: ‘Do you want me to f***ing smack your f***ing head in?’
The video then cuts to a confrontation with airport staff, when the aggressive man says: ‘Do you know how much I’ve paid for that? Four hundred quid. And you’re standing there f***ing staring at me like you’re about to do something.’
His tone then gets even more aggressive as he shouts and points at the member of staff: ‘What the f*** are you gonna do?’
The airport worker then swings at his face. The passenger’s tone then changes, as he is held back by another member of staff.
He says: ‘Your f***ing little k***head’s hit me, the f***ing f*****.’
The upset man was then seen stamping his feet up and down as he shouts more abuse at the Easyjet staff.
The clip then cuts to a moment later, when he turns his attention to the other passengers on the bridge who have still not been let on the flight.
He shouts: ‘You can stop f***ing staring at me, you little f***ing k***head. Keep staring at me. Who do you keep staring at? Who are you saying shush to?’
He then swings at the other passenger as he screams: ‘Do you want me to f***ing smack your f***ing head in? You f***ing little k***head? Do you think I’m a f***ing muppet? Shut the f*** up! Shut up!’
The incident took place last summer, though video of it has only recently come to light.
A spokesperson from Easyjet told MailOnline: ‘This flight from Manchester to Chania was attended by police before departure due to a passenger behaving disruptively during boarding. Police attended the aircraft and the customer was not allowed to travel.
‘easyJet’s cabin crew are trained to assess all situations and act quickly to ensure that the safety of the flight is not compromised at any time. We will not tolerate disruptive or aggressive behaviour towards our crew or other passengers.
‘The safety and wellbeing of our passengers, crew and ground agents is always easyJet’s priority.’
It comes just weeks after a Ryanair flight descended into chaos when staff were forced to strap an ‘unruly’ passenger to his seat using spare belts after he refused to sit down during landing.
Video shows staff and other passengers huddled around the man and a member of staff shouting: ‘Sit down, now’
Onlookers said cabin crew had confiscated two bottles of alcohol from him and had refuse to serve him booze
A Ryanair flight from Manchester to Rhodes on April 3 was forced to return to the air after attempting to land after a passenger refused to sit down
The passenger onboard the flight from Manchester to Rhodes, Greece, on April 3 was shouting at cabin crew who onlookers said had confiscated two bottles of booze from him and refused to serve him alcohol.
He failed to follow orders to sit down during landing, forcing the pilot to abort the descent, circle round, and land again.
Video shows staff and other passengers huddled around the man and a member of staff shouting: ‘Sit down, now.’
A separate clip shows police officers appearing to escort the man down the aisle upon landing.
Passenger Emily, 26, who filmed the incident, said: ‘The flight was going completely fine until the cabin crew came up to me and my partner at the front of the plane and asked us if we were travelling together and if we could be separated because a little girl needed to come down to the front of plane with her dad because a man was being disruptive.
‘We were together so they asked someone else instead who moved and that’s when I got made aware of this guy being really disruptive at the back of the plane.’
Emily explained how cabin crew had to get two spare seatbelts and tried pinning the man down on his seat.
‘He got out of the seat again. Staff were shouting at him, telling him to sit down and he was squaring up to staff.
‘He had already had two bottles of alcohol confiscated off him.’
She added that airline employees had warned over the intercom that anyone caught drinking alcohol purchased at Duty Free before the flight would be apprehended by police upon landing unless they put it away, in which case no further action would be taken.
Emily said: ‘As we were supposed to come down to land I could hear cabin crew shout at him to sit down.
‘We had to go back up to circle the island until he would sit down again which was quite scary.
‘Once [we] had landed we all had to stay put while police came up to take him off. He got taken off on his own.’
A spokeswoman for Ryanair said: ‘The crew of this flight from Manchester to Rhodes on April 3 called ahead for police assistance after a passenger became disruptive onboard. The aircraft was met by local police upon arrival at Rhodes Airport and this passenger was removed.
‘Ryanair has a strict zero tolerance policy towards passenger misconduct and will continue to take decisive action to combat unruly passenger behaviour, ensuring that all passengers and crew travel in a safe and respectful environment, without unnecessary disruption.’
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