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Thomas Molloy & Phoebe Fuller

Ryanair flight 'chaos' and 'loads of kids crying' as man sneaks on without a ticket

A Ryanair flight from Palma, Majorca to Manchester descended into chaos this week, after a passenger snuck onto the plane without a ticket. One passenger, who had been travelling with her partner and 10-year-old granddaughter, said that it became a "fiasco", with people even speculating about a bomb threat.

Barbara Watson, from Stockport in Greater Manchester, had been to Majorca with her family and was on the flight back home on Thursday, August 4. The 64-year-old said that it was an "absolute fiasco", as people were stuck on the plane while staff tried to figure out who the rogue passenger was.

A passenger from the previous flight had managed to sneak back onto the plane without a ticket, but the pilot stopped the plane from taking off after noticing that numbers were not adding up. Barbara said: "The flight that came in, everyone got off board and one person stayed on the bridge and was hiding. When we all got onto the bridge, he mingled around with us and got back on board.

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