Mid-Flight ‘Relief’ Forces Emergency Landing—Police Scramble To Meet Plane On Arrival – View from the Wing

A Ryanair flight from East Midlands, UK, to Tenerife was forced to make an expedited landing on November 4 when an unruly passenger behavior urinated in the cabin aisle. Flight FR3152’s 4.5 hour journey went off the rails as several passengers became disruptive – and one became messy.

The plane was given a direct routing into Tenerife and police met the aircraft to remove the offending passengers from the aircraft.

Tenerife flights often go off the rails over alcohol, and this is doubly so when operated by Ryanair. Cheap flights from the U.K. to European holiday destinations are notorious for out of control, badly-behaved passengers. One Ryanair flight out of Tenerife once had a passenger threaten a bomb when a flight attendant refused to serve him beer.

Ryanair flight Edinburgh-Tenerife. An argument breaks out between a trio of passengers on board a plane. Insults and slaps between three passengers involved who had consumed alcohol before take-off pic.twitter.com/c4d3nvCGeU

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And while this “ep-pee-sode” may ultimately lead to charges, it’s unlikely that the main will be forced to compensate Ryanair for cleaning costs. Although Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary once proposed charging passengers to use the bathroom on flights, there is no published fee for what happened here.

And it happens enough that you’d expect them to be more proactive about that! In July, an American Airlines first class passenger was caught urinating and ‘flicking the bean’ after downing 9 jack and cokes. A man urinated on a seatmate during an American Airlines flight to Delhi back in March. And in one of my favorite cases, an American Airlines passenger had to be told that there was a lavatory on board and not to just use the seat and that man claimed not to be drunk ‘just chewing gum’. Meanwhile, British Airways had to tell staff to stop urinating in their cargo holds.