Moment crazed man who tried to open the emergency door and punched a steward during a flight to London is tackled and put in a headlock by brave passengers
- The incident unfolded on a flight from Tel Aviv to Luton airport on Monday
- Plane had to make emergency landing in Belgrade after man was subdued
This is the moment a crazed man who tried to open a plane’s emergency door and punch a steward was tackled to the floor and put into a headlock by brave passengers – all while at 30,000 feet.
The incident unfolded on a flight travelling from Tel Aviv to Luton airport on Monday that was forced into an emergency landing in Belgrade, Serbia.
Victor Troboloni, 45, tackled the troublemaker after he attempted to force open the emergency doors and went to punch a male flight attendant, The Sun reports.
Troboloni was able to subdue the man by putting him into a headlock, in a scuffle that was captured on video by another passenger onboard.
Frightening footage shows the man screaming as Troboloni pulls him to the floor of the Wizz Air aircraft, before flight attendants secured his arms with cable ties.
This is the moment a crazed man who tried to open a plane’s emergency door and punch a steward was tackled to the floor and put into a headlock by brave passengers – all while at 30,000 feet
‘He tried to open the fire exit, he was sitting at the back and it’s easy to open a fire exit, just pull the handle and that’s it,’ Troboloni told The Sun Online.
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‘I got the guy down. He was very heavyweight… I headlocked him and the stewardesses tied his hands with plastic cable ties… I had to do it’.
‘I held him for 10 minutes, he got out of breath, he got tired, he was tied up for 45 minutes to 1 hour before we landed in Belgrade.’
In the clip of the dark cabin, Troboloni is seen wearing a baseball cap and grappling with the attacker, working to subdue him in the aisle.
Someone can be heard shouting ‘shut up’ during the scuffle, while screams from the attacker are also heard.
Troboloni told The Sun that the attacker shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ repeatedly throughout the incident, although this was not picked up in the video.
With several other passengers helping, Troboloni is able to restrain the man until the stewardess secured his arms. Only then does the heroic passenger lets go.
Once secured, a group of passengers then appear to move the man to the side of the aisle for the rest of the flight, which made an emergency landing in Belgrade.
Troboloni told the publication that he saw the man acting unusually throughout the flight, pacing up and down the gangway to the pilot’s cabin and back.
The 45-year-old, a plane engineer originally from Albania who was on his way to visit his unwell mother in St Albans, said it appeared the man was ‘looking for weak points on the aircraft’ and checking seat numbers.
Many of the people on board were women and children, who were left shaken by the ordeal, he said. The situation was ‘very scary’ and that at 30,000 feet, ‘you’ve got no escape,’ he added.
In a statement to The Sun, Wizz Air said ‘The company regrets the inconvenience caused by this unexpected incident.’
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