This is the moment a drunk Irish woman caused chaos on a Ryanair flight from Alicante to Dublin as she abused staff and accused fellow passengers of carrying drugs on them.

The flight was forced to divert to Santander in Spain, where police escorted the woman and a male companion from the plane.

The woman became abusive after a flight attendant refused to leave her seat to go to the toilet, as they waited for Spanish police officers to take her from the plane.

The pilot of Ryanair flight FR7063 diverted the plane to the port city of Santander after asking the police to meet the aircraft when the woman and her partner became “aggressive” at 35,000 feet above sea level.


The frightening incident occurred on a flight from Alicante to Dublin on Wednesday afternoon.

Exclusive footage obtained by The Irish Daily Star shows the moment the pair were taken from the plane by police.

Shouting at the flight attendant, the woman, who identified herself as Irish, said: “Excuse me, do I have to answer to her to go to the toilet?”

She then bizarrely claimed that the flight attendant was accusing her of smuggling drugs on the plane.

She blurted: “You thought that we were dealing drugs? You dirty little scum, yes you did.

“An Irish person would never do that. No, only if they’re dirt and filth."

As a Spanish police officer arrived on the scene, the woman then began shouting at other passengers on the plane.


She shouted at one man: “Why, do you carry drugs?”

She later pointed at the same man, shouting: “Go up his arse, go up his arse.”

The woman was then escorted off the plane with her male partner.

She again pointed at a man sitting in a seat behind her, shouting: “Check his bum”.

Fellow passengers clapped as the woman was eventually led off the plane.

The plane remained in Santander for 40 minutes before taking to the skies again and landing safely in Dublin Airport at 6 pm on Wednesday night.

A spokesman for the Civil Guard in Cantabria, the region Santander forms part of, confirmed an Irish couple had been removed from the Ryanair plane after it touched down at the airport.

He said: “The pilot asked us to attend because he didn’t want two people who were on the plane and being aggressive to continue their journey.

“The couple left the aircraft voluntarily after we went on board and did not have to be removed by force.”

The spokesman added that the couple will not face any criminal charges but are likely to receive a fine from Spanish Aviation Authority, AESA.


A spokesman for Ryanair said: “This flight from Alicante to Dublin (10 Jan) diverted to Santander after two passengers became disruptive inflight.

“The aircraft landed normally and the passengers were removed and detained by police upon arrival before the aircraft continued to Dublin.

“We will not tolerate unruly or disruptive behaviour at any time and the safety and comfort of our customers, crew and aircraft is our number one priority. This is now a matter for local police.”

The Ryanair spokesman added: “This is exactly why we are calling for significant changes to prohibit the sale of alcohol at airports, such as a two-drink limit per passenger and no alcohol sales before 10 am.

“It’s incumbent on the airports to introduce these preventative measures to curb excessive drinking and the problems it creates, rather than allowing passengers to drink to excess before their flights.”