VIDEO: Madman shouts ‘Allahu Akbar’ on Wizz Air flight, heroic passenger averts disaster

A madman went on a rampage on a Wizz Air flight from Israel to London. A heroic passenger averted the disaster and saved the lives of everyone on board.

A crazed man was pinned down by passengers after he tried to open the emergency exit on board a flight from Israel to London on Monday, 11 September, neokohn.hu reports.

The unnamed terrorist suspect was flying on Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air’s flight W9 4452. The man shouted “Allahu Akbar” until one of the passengers, 45-year-old Albanian Victor Troboloni, managed to restrain him.

“It was a very scary situation. I was thinking I might never see my mother again,” Jewish News quoted Troboloni as saying after the incident.

The heroic passenger said that the man had been acting strangely on the flight before, pacing back and forth from the entrance near the cockpit to the emergency exit at the other end.

“I saw him going up and down, maybe looking for weak points on the aircraft… checking seat numbers. I’m a plane engineer myself, I used to work in maintenance. So I know what’s going on mid-air, in flight at 30,000ft, 11km above sea level, you’ve got no escape,” Troboloni said.

“He tried to open the fire exit, he was sitting at the back and it’s easy to open a fire exit, just pull the handle and that’s it,”

he explained.

“I got the guy down. He was very heavyweight … I headlocked him and the stewardesses tied his hands with plastic cable ties … I had to do it. I held him for 10 minutes, he got out of breath, he got tired, he was tied up for 45 minutes to 1 hour before we landed in Belgrade.”

According to Jewish News, a Wizz Air spokesperson said: “The company is dealing with the onward flight of all customers to London. The safety and security of passengers and crew are the company’s top priority. The company regrets the inconvenience caused by this unexpected incident.”

The flight was eventually forced to make an emergency landing in Belgrade, Serbia.

You can watch the video of the incident below:

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