Father and son calm unruly passenger, avert Jet2 diversion

A father and his eight-year-old son averted a potential diversion of a Jet2 flight from Turkey to Manchester by calming a disruptive passenger, passengers reported Friday.

The incident occurred aboard flight LS1004 from Izmir to Manchester Airport on April 24. The plane, scheduled to depart at 8 p.m., took off 50 minutes late after crew accommodated about 20 passengers transferred from a canceled flight disrupted by another unruly traveler.

Roughly 30 minutes into the journey, following the first drinks service around 9:25 p.m., a woman became agitated when cabin crew confiscated her bottle of whisky. She had been drinking her own alcohol despite rules prohibiting it, according to passenger John Henderson, 47, seated in row two. "They told her, you can't have that, we sell alcohol and you've had too much," Henderson recounted. The woman then "erupted, calling them names, being violent towards them. It was a really bad situation."

Crew warned her of a diversion and alerted the pilot, stating they were "within seconds" of acting on it. A man in row five asked to intervene. "He said, please just give me 30 seconds," Henderson said. A stewardess initially refused, citing the need to...