Two male passengers have been restrained aboard an international flight from Melbourne after allegedly threatening others and becoming involved in a dramatic mid-air disturbance.<\/p>\n
The incident unfolded on Virgin Australia\u2019s daily VA7 service from Melbourne to Doha on Friday, which is operated by Qatar Airways.<\/p>\n
Footage shared online appears to show cabin crew struggling with passengers during the flight as the situation escalated.<\/p>\n
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By continuing you agree to our Terms<\/a> and Privacy Policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n Another video shows uniformed police officers aboard the aircraft after it landed, prompting applause from other passengers.<\/p>\n 3AW Drive host Jacqui Felgate said one passenger told her they had stepped in to help restrain one of the men.<\/p>\n They helped \u201cget the cable ties on\u201d one passenger, Felgate said.<\/p>\n \u201cThen another fella and a cabin crew sat with one of them. The second guy was lying down cuffed by a cabin crew also for the flight,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n 7News confirmed the aircraft was met by authorities upon arrival in Doha.<\/p>\n Felgate said she was also contacted by a woman whose 63-year-old mother had been seated near the two men during what she described as a \u201cterrifying and disgraceful\u201d ordeal.<\/p>\n \u201cShe was texting us from the plane Wi-Fi as it was escalating,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n \u201cApparently they were headbutting and spitting on flight attendants.<\/p>\n \u201cApparently the men were shouting that they had a gun and required six to seven men each to restrain them in the galley until they could land.\u201d<\/p>\n Qatar Airways confirmed two passengers had been involved in an incident aboard the flight.<\/p>\n \u201cBoth passengers were restrained and, upon arrival in Doha, were handed over to local authorities,\u201d the airline said in a statement.<\/p>\n The airline said the two male passengers \u201cwere involved in a physical altercation on board flight VA7 from Melbourne to Doha, operated by Qatar Airways\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two male passengers have been restrained aboard an international flight from Melbourne after allegedly threatening others and becoming…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,1720],"class_list":["post-890103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890103","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=890103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}