An easyJet flight to London was forced to divert to Italy for an emergency landing after a teenage girl threatened cabin crew and tried to open the plane door, according to reports.
Flight EZY8556 left Antalya, Turkey at 11.20pm local time on 27 December for a four-hour journey to London Gatwick, but just over two hours in it was diverted to Bari, Italy, data from FlightAware shows.
A passenger who was on the flight claimed that the plane landed in Italy due to security reasons after a teenage girl caused chaos onboard.
Nadine, 39, a passenger on the flight, told The Sun that “this 16-year-old was about four rows behind me and she was sitting next to a little girl who was about 10 started coughing and she told her to stop”.
“The little girl went to the toilet but the older girl followed her to the toilet.