Drunk Passenger Forces Madrid-Dakar Flight to Make Emergency Landing in Casablanca

The young man verbally assaulted a flight attendant who had reprimanded him for consuming an alcoholic drink during the flight and taken the bottle from him. He started shouting and making noise, to the point of disturbing the peace of the some 150 passengers on the flight that left Madrid on Saturday at 6 p.m. to reach Dakar. The crew members tried to calm him down by all possible means. Without success.

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Despite all the calls for calm, the Sub-Saharan continued to shout and disrupt the order on the flight, which prompted the captain to change course and make an emergency landing at Casablanca airport, reports Diario de Leon. A few minutes later, several patrols of the Moroccan gendarmerie were on the spot to arrest the Sub-Saharan, but the latter refused to get off the plane.

The Moroccan agents ended up getting on the plane to expel him. Once on the tarmac of the airport, the man refused again to get into the police van, kneeling and crying to the Moroccan gendarmes. The scene lasted an hour. After which, the plane took off for the Senegalese capital, Dakar, where it landed three hours late, well after 1 a.m. Sunday, instead of 10:40 p.m. Saturday.