Drunk Romanian man smashes Wizz plane door, 224 passengers stranded at airport
224 passengers were stranded at Zaragoza airport in Spain after a drunk Romanian man started pulling on the Wizz Air plane door before take-off and broke it. As a result, passengers on their way to Bucharest were taken off the plane and had to wait for the door to be repaired.
A Romanian citizen who drunkenly boarded a WizzAir flight from Zaragoza (Spain) to Bucharest broke the door of the aircraft of the Hungarian low-cost carrier Wizz Air, causing a delay of several hours, gandul.ro reports. As a result of the incident, the 224 passengers had to get off the plane and wait until they could take off.
The incident took place on Saturday, 30 September, at 09:15 local time. The Romanian man got on the plane drunk and tried to open the door before take-off. He pulled so hard on it he eventually broke the door. Because of this, the aircraft was unable to take off and passengers had no choice but to wait for several hours until the problem was solved.
Shortly after, airport officials called the police to handle the situation, elmundo.es reports. Law enforcement officers helped evacuate and transfer passengers.
According to the source, passengers were not able to leave Zaragoza until 23.00. They then departed on another plane. However, because the second aircraft was smaller than the first, 50 passengers had to stay in Zaragoza due to lack of space.
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“Drunkenly boarded the plane.” WHY WHY WHY do aircrews allow people who are clearly intoxicated to get on a plane?!? It is ludicrous that they rake you over the coals for even thinking of lighting up a cigarette or turning on your cellphone but you can be totally hammered and they let you get on. Airports bear some responsibility, too, for serving alcohol indiscriminately. I know that air travel is so stressful these days–what with the three-ring circus they call “security,” huge crowds, rude people, endless stores, delays and cancellations, etc.–that you HAVE to be on something to not go totally nuts, but it’s high time the same stringent policy against alcohol consumption be adopted that smokers have to endure.