An unruly first-class passenger has forced an international flight to make an unplanned landing after they allegedly became aggressive towards cabin staff.<\/p>\n
United Airlines flight 18 was travelling from Milan, Italy to New Ark, New Jersey on Tuesday when a 37-year-old Russian woman seated at the front of the aircraft started causing a scene inside the cabin, People<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n The mid-flight meltdown occurred when the woman, identified as Kristina Kedysheva, asked airline staff for more alcoholic drinks but was \u201crefused\u201d service.<\/p>\n Sign up to The Nightly’s newsletters.<\/p>\n Get the first look at the digital newspaper, curated daily stories and breaking headlines delivered to your inbox.<\/p>\n By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n It was then that \u201cnon-compliant\u201d Ms Kedysheva became \u201caggressive\u201d and allegedly started \u201cassaulting flight attendants,\u201d a lead air hostess onboard the plane told investigators.<\/p>\n A fellow passenger told police she grabbed the woman when she saw her \u201cmove close to the outer, rear door\u201d out of fear she might try and open it.<\/p>\n But Ms Kedysheva then started yelling, prompting staff to try restrain her as she became increasingly resistant as she \u201cfought off\u201d and \u201cbit\u201d a flight attendant on the wrist.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen flight crew and able-bodied people attempted to place Ms Kedysheva in restraints, Ms Kedysheva fought them off,\u2019\u201d the flight attendant added.<\/p>\n According to another cabin crew member, Ms Kedysheva had already consumed a number of alcoholic beverages and \u201cappeared to be drunk\u201d.<\/p>\n Airline staff alerted the FBI and the captain was forced to make an emergency landing at Bangor International Airport in Maine.<\/p>\n Upon arrival, the disruptive passenger was removed from the plane and detained by US Customs and Border Patrol.<\/p>\n United Airlines said in statement provided to People the flight landed safely in Maine after an \u201cunruly passenger\u201d caused the unscheduled diversion.<\/p>\n Under police questioning, Ms Kedysheva denied accusations she bit airline staff, attempted to tamper with a door and made threats to airline crews.<\/p>\n She maintained she did not do anything wrong and claimed the in-flight chaos was caused by a female flight attendant.<\/p>\n However, she allegedly admitted to drinking three alcoholic drinks onboard over the course of a few hours.<\/p>\n Ms Kedysheva faces one count of interference with a flight crew and one count of assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An unruly first-class passenger has forced an international flight to make an unplanned landing after they allegedly became…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,2057,2957,1720],"class_list":["post-887808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-europe","tag-usa","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=887808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}