Ryanair passengers 'loot plane' after flight lands 250 miles from destination

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Tired and fed-up Ryanair passengers reportedly looted a plane when the Paris-bound flight landed at an airport 250 miles away.

The 11 January holiday flight from Rabat, Morocco, had diverted to to Madrid to drop off a sick passenger, with the delay meaning the plane could not land in Paris Beauvais Airport as it was too far behind schedule.

Instead, it went to Nantes, where furious passengers then staged a sit-in protest and allegedly looted food, alcohol, perfume and cigarettes from trolleys.

One passenger told the Mirror: "We were tired and annoyed by a mismanaged ­situation.

"We were thirsty, hungry with no information on our fate. We ­compensated ourselves by taking some drinks and food.

"After seven hours stuck on a plane, instead of two-and-a-half, people needed to eat."

Local paper Metro News said that a handful of the 170 passengers showed "almost animal and barbaric behaviour towards the plane, the crew and the ground staff."

The paper added the incident saw "a hostage taking of the aircraft and its crew by a group of unhappy, but especially disrespectful passengers."

Police were called and managed to diffuse the situation.

Ryanair's Robin Kiely told thelocal.fr: "A Ryanair flight from Rabat to Paris Beauvais (11 Jan) diverted into Madrid after a passenger became ill onboard.

"On arrival in Madrid, the passenger disembarked and was assisted by local medical services and the aircraft continued onwards to Paris a short time later.

"However, due to an airport curfew at Paris Beauvais the aircraft diverted to Nantes Airport. Passengers were provided with overnight hotel accommodation and were transferred to Paris Beauvais by coach the following morning."



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