Ryanair Flight Forced To Divert After Passenger ‘Ate His Passport’ And Another Tried To Flush His Down Toilet

Big week for Ryanair: first we had the story of the stag-do dad who tried to open the plane door mid-flight and caused pandemonium, and now we’ve got a passenger who reportedly ‘ate his passport’ and caused a plane to be diverted.

The flight in question was travelling from Milan to London-Stansted when two men began to behave ‘strange’, according to a passenger who spoke to the Daily Star.

Shortly after the seatbelt signed was switched off, one of the men, who was seated at the front of the plane, reportedly ripped pages out of his passport and ate them, causing passengers around him to panic.

Meanwhile, another man attempted to ‘flush his passport down the toilet’.

The witness said: ‘Staff were notified and went to see what was going on at the front of the plane. Suddenly, the whole mood changed – no one onboard knew what was going on; these people were acting weird.’

A flight attendant knocked on the toilet door and tried to convince the man to stop flushing his passport down the loo.

Another flight attendant then apparently made a ‘blunt’ announcement to the entire plane over the tannoy about what was happening, which was probably not a good idea in hindsight because everyone started ‘freaking out.’

Eventually, the flight was diverted to Paris, which the source called ‘the most terrifying 15 minutes of my life’. A tad dramatic perhaps, but I guess it’s easy to imagine an “incident” was taking place and panic setting in.

When the plane landed, French authorities were waiting and reportedly arrested the two men. The plane then continued its journey to London and everyone went home happy.

So, why on Earth would these two men think it’s a good idea to eat/flush their passports mid-flight?

The only thing I can think of is that it’s an immigration/asylum issue and that without passports (which they obviously needed to board the plane), they would be able to claim they’re from anywhere and frustrate officials trying to identify them. Although I’m not sure why they both just didn’t go to the bathroom and destroy the passports there instead of one of the guys munching the pages like a lunatic in front of everyone.

Either that, or they were tripping balls on something. Anyone got any other ideas?

For the couple who were exposed by EasyJet staff while shagging in the toilets 30,000 feet up in the sky, click HERE.