Hero Brit tackles raging drunk passenger to the ground TWICE and cuffs him after he started rowing with his sobbing girlfriend and throwing things around the cabin on United Airlines flight from Heathrow to NYC

A hero Briton knocked a raging drunken passenger to the ground and handcuffed him after he started rowing with his sobbing girlfriend and caused havoc during a flight to New York City.

The man started shouting and ‘throwing things’ after the altercation on a United Airlines flight from Heathrow.

Passenger Bobby Field managed to tackle the man to the ground twice during the flight.

He was later carried off the plane by border police in front of cheering passengers.

Bobby, 38, was traveling to Newark, New Jersey, with his partner Rebecca Guestford.

Border police arrest the drunk man on the plane

The trip was a gift for her 31st birthday and was Bobby’s first visit to New York.

But during the last part of the flight on Friday, the situation descended into chaos.

Bobby, from Brierley Hill in the West Midlands, told us BlackCountryLive that they were sitting in the left center of the plane.

He said they noticed the couple as they boarded the plane.

Bobby said: ‘It was about six hours before the boy started getting a bit noisy and you could tell he had been drinking. He started grabbing her jacket and throwing things.”

He said the girl was so distressed that she stirred and was seen crying.

The flight attendant came over to talk to her, she got up and walked to the back of the plane.

But then things got out of hand again.

Bobby said: ‘He got out of his seat and followed them and you could see words were said – it got heated.’

He said the man involved was a “big guy” and was willing to help if needed.

“It got louder and louder and you could tell something was going on, and the next thing was the flight attendant came running out and grabbed me by the shoulder,” he said. “She asked if I could help, so I got up and walked to the back.

‘At that point he had placed the male steward against the exit door and tried to challenge him. He said he would turn the plane upside down and make it great.

‘I just approached him and said, ‘Look mate, calm down. We’re in the air and people are getting upset, just come and sit down.’

Bobby said the man turned and came at him so he “turned him over and put him on the ground” so he was lying on his stomach with his hands behind his back.

An American man helped them and they put cuffs on the passenger’s hands and legs.

Bobby said he was screaming and they held him in that position and told him to calm down.

He said the girl became hysterical and they made the man lie down for a few minutes to calm down.

They put a pillow under his head and gave him some water, but he wouldn’t stop.

Bobby, who works on the roads, said every time the man saw him he started screaming again.

He told him that if he calmed down he could get up, so they put him up.

But he kept screaming, so he was placed in a seat at the back of the plane.

Bobby said he stayed away because he was the one who made him angry.

He said that every time the man saw him, he would run off and “want to go for me.”

Border Patrol carried the man off the plane in Maine in front of cheering passengers after the flight was diverted

So Bobby stayed out of the way, hoping this would end the situation.

He said staff loosened the cable ties from the man’s hands and feet, but then everything started going wrong again.

“He came in the back and gave him the big hit again, so I did the same thing again and flattened him,” Bobby said.

He said he handcuffed him again and told the stewards to keep them on.

They got up and he was screaming, so he asked his girlfriend to give him his phone and he started recording them saying, ‘You attacked me.’

Bobby said it was pointless to talk to him because he was drunk and after about 20 minutes he was taken away again.

Bobby’s girlfriend filmed part of the argument in the back of the plane.

He was told that since they were still an hour and a half from their destination, the flight could continue if the man calmed down.

But he kept saying nothing, so the captain decided to divert the flight.

Ten minutes later they arrived in Maine and within seconds the Border Patrol had grabbed him by the hands and legs and carried him off the plane.

Bobby said they were there about an hour. He made a statement to the police and then someone from the FBI came to talk to him.

He said the plane was refueled and they were leaving for New York.

Bobby said everyone cheered and clapped as he got off the plane and many people shook his hand.

Despite his impressive intervention, Bobby does not consider himself a hero The altercation did not ruin the couple’s trip.

In New York they even met some passengers who wanted to thank him.

A spokesperson for United Airlines said: ‘United Flight 883 landed in Bangor last Friday morning after two passengers, who appeared to be intoxicated, became disruptive. Law enforcement officials removed the two passengers and the flight has now arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport.

“The customers will be barred from future United flights while we review this matter.” Sergeant Jason McAmbley, public information officer for the Bangor Police Department, told PEOPLE, “Two passengers have been removed from the plane and CBP and the FBI are investigating.”