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Date Published: 10/02/2022

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The “disruptive” traveller removed his pants before departing Alicante airport

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British tourists in Spain have been getting a lot of flack recently, between EasyJet warning UK travellers that their all-inclusive drinks packages will be limited this summer and officials on the Balearic Islands threatening huge fines for drunk and disorderly behaviour.

But it’s time for Britons to step aside, as this time an Irish man has caused chaos on a flight from Alicante to Dublin by removing his pants and abusing airline staff.

Spanish police were forced to remove the “disruptive” passenger from the Ryanair flight before it even left the runway at Alicante airport on Monday February 7, as fellow travellers were left astonished when the drunken man took off his trousers, claiming the plane was too warm.

"Nobody noticed anything when he got on, he didn’t seem too bad but when he sat down he got up and took off his trousers,” one passenger on the same flight said.

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“[My wife] said that he said to the woman beside him that he gets very hot on the plane, and then she said to me, ‘I kind of copped then he was under the weather’.”

As if the disrobing wasn’t enough, the man was reportedly cradling several bottles of spirits which he refused to hand over to the air steward before take-off.

Despite the fact that the aircraft doors had been closed and the cross-check had been completed, the decision was made to remove the intoxicated passenger from the flight and the ground authorities were called to escort him off the plane.

According to the other people on the plane, the man made “a big deal about a suitcase” as he was being removed by Spanish police, but it later transpired that he had not placed any luggage in the hold.

The FR7063 Ryanair flight was originally due to depart at 2.35pm but was delayed by around 40 minutes due to the Irish man’s antics.

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