A CHARTER FLIGHT CARRYING VACATIONERS from Dublin to Crete had to be diverted to Venice when a bunch of drunken passengers got into a brawl.
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The revelers were all men over the age of 30 and were part of a charter group of 167 people of all ages traveling on a Futura Gael airliner. One young lady said, “We were up in the air and two guys – who were surprisingly a lot older than us – started fights. Then we had to be redirected to Venice for a couple of hours. The police came on and had to get them off.
“They had a couple of drinks on them, they were extremely aggressive. One of the guys half-way through the flight stood up and started smashing the overhead compartments.”
The incident occurred in Italian airspace around 10 pm and the pilot made the decision, for everyone’s safety, to divert the flight to Venice where they were met by the Italian police.
Five people were removed from the plane and after two hours, the flight was resumed. The airline has apologized to the passengers and is launching an investigation.
The Daily Mail has the STORY.
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