Phillip O’Brien was a passenger on the Jet2 flight from Lanarca to Manchester Airport on Tuesday, August 9 An unidentified woman in her 30s allegedly stripped naked and shouted that her parents were ISIS members Drainage firm boss says the woman suggested she had explosives on board and restrained her on the ground
A hero-father-of-three restrained a woman who stripped to her underwear and ran through a Manchester-bound plane naked before trying to storm the cockpit twice while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’.
Phillip O’Brien, 35, was a passenger on the Jet2 flight from Lanarca, Cyprus to Manchester on Tuesday 9 August when a woman, in her 30s, caused the panicked scene shortly after take-off.
The woman seemed to suggest she had explosives on board with her, and also asked the children she was with if they were ‘ready to die’.
She also told the terrified passengers and staff that her parents were members of terror group ISIS.
Mr O’Brien, a drainage firm boss, was on board six of his family members, including his wife and three children aged eight to 14.
He said everyone was ‘sh*****g themselves’, but while watching the scene unfold, he asked staff why no one was putting her to the floor before putting himself forward to help.
The 35-year-old, who worked in security as a teenager, told The Mirror: ‘Everything was normal and then shortly after take-off a woman walked up the aisle naked and banged on the cockpit door shouting “Allahu Akbar”.
Phillip O’Brien (pictured), from Macclesfield, restrained the woman while the plane was in the air until it was able to make an emergency landing in Paris
Phillip O’Brien (pictured), from Macclesfield, restrained the woman while the plane was in the air until it was able to make an emergency landing in Paris
A woman (pictured, muzzed) stripped to her underwear and ran through a Lanarca, Cyprus to Manchester Jet2 plane naked before trying to storm the cockpit twice while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’ on Tuesday morning
The woman (pictured, muzzed) allegedly had explosives on board with her, and also asked the children she was with if they were ‘ready to die’. She also told the terrified passengers and staff that her parents were members of terror group ISIS
‘I spoke to staff and said, “Why have you not put her to the floor?”.
‘They said, “We’re not able to”. I said, “Well I am”.
‘So when the woman went to the cockpit again I took control, took her to the ground and at that point the pilot did an emergency landing to Paris.’
Mr O ‘Brien said he asked the woman why she was saying such things and he claimed she replied: ‘If I didn’t there’s going to be an explosion and everybody is going to die.’
One woman who was on the flight told MailOnline that the woman’s behaviour had left her daughter terrified.
She said: ‘I was more worried about my daughter – she was so scared, she had a massive panic attack. You were just terrified of what she as going to do when you closed your eyes.’
She said the woman had started screaming about ’10 or 15 minutes’ after the plane took off and her bizarre antics lasted for hours.
She added: ‘It was just crazy. At first it looked like she was drunk – she had the suitcase on her head. The cabin crew said she wasn’t drunk as they had smelt her breath.
‘I don’t know how she got through security.
‘The cabin crew said “we’ve asked the pilot to call this in as an emergency landing”. It didn’t feel it as a terrorist incident
‘We landed in Paris and sat on the plane for an hour while they sorted out the logistics. The French refused to refuel us, I think because it was around 3 or 4am.’
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The flight was diverted to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport early Tuesday morning so that a ‘disruptive passenger’ could be ‘offloaded’ (file photo)
The Mirror reports that Jet2 confirmed the flight was diverted to Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport early Tuesday morning so that a ‘disruptive passenger’ could be ‘offloaded’.
Footage shared on social media shows a chaotic scene with at least two French police officers appearing to arrest or restrain a woman, wearing a black cap and red top.
The caption of the clip reads: ‘Jet2 Cirque De Soleil – Mad woman ran down aisle mid-slight half naked half p****d herself and fainted.’
