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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Patrick Hill & Benjamin Roberts-Haslam

Dad tackles woman who stripped to underwear and tried to storm cockpit on Jet2 flight

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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