A nightmare flyer who was filmed screaming in the face of a horrified air-stewardess before slapping a fellow passenger has been revealed as a mother-of-one who was on her way to Turkey for dental treatment.
Catherine Bush was escorted off the flight to Antalya after she "displayed a catalogue of aggressive, abusive and dangerous behaviour".
The horrifying conduct included "physical aggression towards other customers and our crew," airline Jet2 say.
They banned the abusive flyer for life and also fined her a whopping £5,000 (€5,992.50)
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Now, a friend of Bush has claimed that she had been on her way to get teeth whitening treatment for (€3,595.50).
The friend told MailOnline: "I was with Catherine in the pub at the weekend. She told me she was excited about going to Turkey.
"She said that she had scraped together £3,000 from her savings for cosmetic surgery on her teeth.
"She was going to have them whitened."
Footage of the angry woman, thought to be from Kirklees in West Yorkshire, went viral as the appalling incident was filmed by shocked passengers on Monday morning, and seen by the Mirror UK.
Bush was recorded screaming and marching up and down a flight which had to be diverted to Vienna just over two hours after leaving the UK.
In the video, the woman is seen screaming in the face of a uniformed staff member at the front of the plane.
As other flight staff gather around her to aid their colleague, it looks as though she lashes out with her hands against someone seated in the first row.
A member of staff can be seen telling her to 'stand back', to which she replies: "I am back. Sort your head out you.
"So what have I done? Don't touch me, don't ****ing touch me.
She adds: "What have I done? What have I done wrong on this flight, eh? See, you haven't got an answer."
Another passenger, who asked only to be named by her first name, Emma, told The Mirror it was about 40 minutes into the flight when the disruption started.
She said: "The flight attendant was trying to calm her down.
"She was being really loud and arguing with the passenger in front of her. That went on for about 40 minutes.
"They gave her notice that any more trouble and further action would be taken and were telling her 'we're not here to be horrible to anybody'.
"She was not having any of it. She was aggressive and swearing, it was not a nice experience.
"You didn't dare look at her.
"At one point I walked down the aisle to go to the toilet with my little girl and she said 'what the f*** are you looking at? Go on, have a f***ing look all of you.'"
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