Vojvodina handball club members on board a Frankfurt-Belgrade flight helped prevent an incident when a passenger threatened he would open a door of the plane on Sunday.
HC Vojvodina President Milan Djukic, who was on the plane, told Tanjug that his impression was that the man was psychologically unstable and that what he had done was not an attempted act of terrorism.
“The situation was not that dramatic at all, but you don’t really feel comfortable when someone threatens to open the door of the plane,” said Djukic.
“The passenger behaved strangely ever since he entered the plane and switched between seats on several occassions, and even sat down beside me at one point.
“About an hour after takeoff, he got up, passed through the business class section and started banging on the cockpit door, saying that he was not feeling well, that he was fed up with everything and that he would open the door,” Djukic said.
“Assistant coach Mirkovic and a flight attendant reacted and told him to calm down and stop causing trouble, which he was doing since the start of the flight, and then the attendant asked our player Aleksey Rastvortsev to have the passenger seated between him and Mirkovic until the end of the flight,” Djukic said.
“And so it was, and he (the troublemaker) did not complain much,” Djukic said. He added that the majority of passengers on the plane had not even been aware of what was happening except the handball players and those in the immediate vicinity.
Belgrade-based media reported earlier today that a Jordanian citizen with U.S. passport had attempted to break into the cockpit of a Lufthansa plane en route from Frankfurt to Belgrade, but passengers managed to put him under control.
The drama started in the skies over Austria when the man threatened to open the plane’s door.
According to Blic, he was banging on the cockpit door, shouting that he would open the plane’s door.
Tabloid daily Kurir said the man complained that he had lost his mind and wanted to take them all together with him to Allah.
The passengers managed to subdue him, and the plane landed safely in Belgrade at 45 minutes past noon and the police took the problematic passenger to the Belgrade Police Department for questioning, Blic daily said.
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Source: Tanjug
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