A heroic dad-of-three restrained a passenger who stripped down to her underwear and twice tried to storm a plane cockpit shouting "Allahu Akbar" on his flight to Manchester Airport.
Phillip O'Brien, 35, was travelling on a Jet2 flight from Cyprus to Manchester last week with six members of his family, including his wife and three children aged eight to 14, when a woman in her 30s walked up the aisle in just her underwear shortly after take-off and tried to gain entry to the cockpit twice.
The drainage firm boss, who worked in security as a teenager, restrained the woman when staff onboard were unable to, and helped crew members secure her into a chair on the flight as it was diverted to Paris, after she claimed there were explosives on board. She allegedly asked the children she was with if they were "ready to die".
