They were to get off at Faro, in the south of Portugal.

But, here we are, the passengers finally landed in Loire-Atlantique.

A flight between Manchester and Faro was diverted to Nantes-Atlantique airport on Monday evening because five Englishmen, in a state of drunkenness, disturbed the other passengers, we learned from the Border Police on Tuesday ( PAF).

Operated by the Irish low-cost airline Ryanair, the flight between the north of England and the south of Portugal “was diverted to Nantes following the attack on a passenger by other passengers.

In the end, there was no filing of a complaint, the person took over the flight, ”explained police commander Pierre-Yves Collin, deputy to the interdepartmental director of the Nantes border police, confirming information from

West-France

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A rare event

“On the other hand, the five Englishmen, who were in fairly substantial manifest drunkenness, were disembarked because they were messing up the plane.

They were sobered up,” he added.

The five passengers in question, three women and two men, who are between 24 and 36 years old, “should not have boarded in England because obviously they had started the vodka in the morning”, indicated Pierre-Yves Collin.

"Alcoholic people who attack passengers are likely to endanger a flight," he said.

A plane diverted to an airport for PMI (public and overt drunkenness) is a "rare" event, he pointed out.

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