These suspicious passengers got their meal ticket — and a free pass to jail.
A Ryanair flight from Milan, Italy, to London, UK, needed to make an emergency landing after “strange” passengers began freaking out and attempting to get rid of their passports in unusual ways.
“Nobody onboard knew what was occurring; these people were acting weird,” an anonymous fly-witness told the Each day Star of the wild saga, which occurred while they were returning home after “spending time with friends” abroad.
“Essentially, the flight took off, and 15-20 mins into the flight, once the seatbelt sign was off, something very strange happened on the front of the plane,” the passenger recalled.
In keeping with the traveler, certainly one of the lads tore out the pages of his passport and proceeded to eat them, causing everyone aboard to “freak out.”
His partner-in-crime then high-tailed it to the opposite end of the aircraft and attempted to “flush his passport down the bathroom.”
A flight attendant slammed on the door and pleaded with him to open it, but he refused to maneuver, which only led to “more tension,” per the source.
“The air hostess then made a public announcement that was so blunt and to the purpose,” they continued. “That freaked people out to a different level.”
At that time, the pilots decided to divert the flight to Paris, France, with the source describing the descent as “essentially the most terrifying quarter-hour of my life.”
Upon arrival, French authorities boarded the aircraft and arrested the 2 men before conducting a rigorous bag search.
In total, the method took a whopping two hours, after which the plane was allowed to proceed on its option to London Stansted Airport.
The source lauded Ryanair employees for handling the “stressful” situation “amazingly.”
“I feel Ryanair [was] good in handling it in a certain way. They gave out drinks towards the tip of the flight as we were coming in over Stansted.”
“I’m just really f–king glad I landed.”
The rationale for the duo’s spy movie-esque methods of passport disposal stays unclear. The Post reached out to Ryanair for comment.
