Airline staff taped the mouth of a drunk passenger after they made vulgar and racist marks while on a flight
Flight staff were forced to restrain a drunk passenger on board a Fiji Airways flight earlier this month, after she became abusive towards staff. The passenger, Australian Stephanie Banks, 69, had her mouth sealed with duct tape by flight staff, after she became angry and was unable to calmed down.
In a video that circulated on social media, she could be seen yelling at flight crew members as they attempted to calm her down.
The footage showed Banks telling a flight attendant she was being ‘abused’, adding ‘this is criminal’. When the flight attendant sat down with her to try and calm the situation, Banks called her a ‘f**king b**ch’ and also used a racial slur.
In a second video, two flight attendants can be seen taping Banks’ mouth shut using duct tape. According to Fiji broadcaster FBC News and News.com.au , Banks was fined £176 in a Fijian court, following the incident.
According to a witness, who was onboard the flight, the woman was travelling with her husband, however the two weren’t seated together. The incident took place on flight FJ871, that departed from San Francisco to Nadi, a city in Fiji, on Jan. 19.
It comes as a rowdy drunk man had to be removed from Jet2 flight, with police rolling him off in a wheelchair. A video has been released of the moment a drunk passenger was removed from a Jet2 flight to Turkey after drank half a bottle of whisky unleashed a sweary verbal attack on cabin crew.
The man, who has now been jailed, was hauled off a flight to Turkey for unleashing a sweary tirade on cabin crew.
Video footage has now been released by the Crown Prosecution service showing the moment Lewis Howarth, 36, was removed from the Jet2 flight from Manchester Airport after downing half a bottle of whisky and becoming abusive to staff onboard the plane. He repeatedly stood up during the safety briefing and branded one member of crew a “d***head” when he was asked to fasten his seatbelt.
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