A dad managed to pin down a woman who had stripped down to her underwear and twice tried to storm the cockpit of a flight to Manchester.
Phillip O'Brien restrained the woman in a hold and helped crew members secure her in her seat on the Jet2 flight from Cyrpus to Manchester Airport. She had claimed she had explosives on board the plane and asked the children she was with if they were "ready to die".
It has also been claimed that the woman, believed to be in her 30s, said her parents were members of the terror group Isis before the flight was diverted to Paris and she was led away by police.
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Mr O'Brien, a 35-year-old dad-of-three who worked in security as a teen but now is in charge of a drainage firm, was with six family members including his wife and three children aged from eight to 14, the Mirror reports.
He said: "Everything was normal and then shortly after take-off a woman walked up the aisle naked and banged on the cockpit door shouting 'Allahu Akbar'. As you can imagine everyone was sh**ing themselves. I spoke to staff and said, 'Why have you not put her to the floor?'.
"They said, 'We're not able to'. I said, 'Well I am'. So when the woman went to the cockpit again I took control, took her to the ground and at that point the pilot did an emergency landing to Paris."
Mr O'Brien said he asked the woman why she was saying such things and she replied: "If I didn't there's going to be an explosion and everybody is going to die".
Jet2 said the Larnaca-Manchester flight was diverted to Paris in the early hours of Tuesday so a "disruptive passenger could be offloaded".
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