EXCLUSIVE: Terrifying moment drunk Ryanair passenger struggles with cabin crew ‘after buying a liter of Jägermeister’ before takeoff as Manchester to Dublin flight delayed by almost five hours

This is the horrific moment a drunk Ryanair passenger got into an argument with cabin crew after ‘buying a liter of Jägermeister duty-free’ before boarding the plane.

The passenger was filmed assaulting a male cabin crew member on board the Manchester to Dublin flight early this morning while being told by others to ‘sit down’.

A female staff member tried to restrain the man by dragging him backwards, but he ran into the steward.

Another passenger could be heard shouting, “I have my five-year-old here today, sit down!” A third crew member said, “Please stop.”

The man said, “Get your damn hands off me,” as he pushed the steward back. He then took off his jacket and shouted ‘Get off me’ several times.

The passenger was filmed early this morning encountering a male cabin crew member on board the flight from Manchester to Dublin while being told by others to ‘sit down’.

The man is seen punching one of the cabin crew members on board the flight from Manchester to Dublin

The flight, which was originally scheduled to depart at 10:40 p.m. Friday, departed at 3:29 a.m. today, almost five hours later.

A 37-year-old woman from Stockport, who asked to remain anonymous, witnessed the scene and said the man on board the flight was ‘swearing’ and ‘being violent’.

She told MailOnline: ‘We got on the plane and then this young guy had been drinking. I think because it was delayed, he went to the duty free and bought a liter bottle of Jägermeister and he drank that before he got on the flight. aeroplane.

‘He was just kicking off the plane and so we stayed on the tarmac at God knows what time. We landed at 4:30 am.

‘We stood on the asphalt for almost four hours waiting for new crew. Everyone was relieved when he was taken off the plane.’

The passenger said she believes the crew had exceeded working hours and therefore had to be replaced by new staff members.

‘I’m a very, very nervous flyer and it’s also the first time I flew alone, so it was really traumatic. We were literally waiting to take off when he jumped out of his seat and I thought we were about to leave with him,” she added.

‘To be honest, I almost cried, I sent a message to my family saying, ‘I have to get off this flight.’

The woman on board the plane said the man was arrested by police and left the plane

The man said: ‘Get your fucking hands off me, don’t touch me’, to staff before taking off his jacket

‘It’s just scary, you have no control over it, you’re confined to a space, basically your life is in someone else’s hands and then you get some idiot doing that – it completely destroys your self-confidence.’

The woman added that the plane had to taxi back to the gate, where they waited for hours and ran out of bottled water and that children on the flight – as young as five years old – were “crying” because they were stuck on the runway.

The woman claimed that the drunken passenger was arrested by police officers and taken off the plane.

Greater Manchester Police and Ryanair have been contacted by MailOnline for comment.