“FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!” – a group of people on a Jetstar flight yesterday. (That’s what we imagine they were yelling, anyway.)
Jetstar flight JQ27 was headed from Sydney to Phuket, but apparently a group starting getting pretty rowdy and became ‘extremely disruptive’.
SMH are reporting that a ‘wild fight’ occurred while in the air, which forced the plane to have to divert and land to drop the ruddy troublemakers off in Bali.
The apparently repeatedly refused requests from the crew to calm down, previous to their removal from the aircraft.
In a statement from Jetstar today, the company said that other customers ‘thanked the crew’ for choosing to eject the aggressive group:
“The captain decided to divert the flight to Bali, where Indonesian police took the disruptive passengers off the aircraft.We take safety and security seriously and we don’t tolerate disruptive behaviour by passengers on our flights.The other customers on board supported the decision to offload the group in Bali, and thanked the crew.”
After removing the group, the flight continued on to Phuket, arriving more than 2 hours after it was scheduled.
A spokesperson for Jetstar said that the actions of the group of six who caused the forced landing now rested in the hands of the Indonesian government, and that the airline would make no further statements on the incident.
We imagine the entire incident looked pretty much exactly like this:
Source: SMH.
Photo: Bridesmaids.
