Aggressive man forces Eindhoven flight to make unplanned landing in Germany

An aggressive man forced a Wizz Air plane from Eindhoven to Bucharest, Romania, to make an unplanned stop in Germany. The man caused a commotion and refused to follow the flight crew’s instructions, so the pilot stopped the plane in Nuremberg and put him off. The police arrested him, two other passengers on board told Omroep Brabant.

The plane was already in the air when the man sitting behind Auke (22) and Yael (21) suddenly started shouting. The flight crew tried to calm him down, but it had the opposite effect. “The man became very angry with the staff and hit the luggage bins,” Auke said.

The man spoke in a language other than Dutch or English, so Auke and Yael could not tell what he was talking about. “A Romanian man who was sitting behind us didn’t quite understand either, but he told us that the man was threatening the staff.”

A stewardess went to the cockpit to explain the situation to the pilot. “He said over the loudspeaker that the man was getting a final warning; otherwise, we would land somewhere.”

The situation escalated when a stewardess asked the man to sign a form. “I don’t know exactly what it said. He probably had to sign that he would behave,” Auke said. The man refused and got angry again. Other passengers, who didn’t want a delay, started yelling at the man.

The stewardess returned to the cockpit, and the pilot almost immediately announced that they would land in Nuremberg. Three vans with police officers greeted the plane and took the man into custody.

The other passengers were allowed to stay on the plane. After the officers’ took the flight crew’s statements, the plane took off again about 90 minutes later.