Tel Aviv-Krasnodar Flight Makes Emergency Landing Due to Disruptive Passenger

A flight from Tel Aviv to Saint Petersburg was forced to make an emergency landing in Krasnodar due to a passenger attempting to break the aircraft's window with his head. According to РИА Новости, the disruptive passenger has been arrested.

A representative of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that the man “violated public order during the flight, behaved aggressively, responded rudely to the crew’s remarks using inappropriate language, and also attempted to break the window with his head.”

The unruly passenger was a 32-year-old resident of Kirovsk in the Murmansk region. He was taken to the police station, where a report on the administrative violation was compiled. The man has been sentenced to five days in detention.