Woman disrupts flight, gets £85,000 bill

[Information Analyst]

Metro: Airline sends £85,000 bill to woman who tried to open emergency doors mid-flight

"A passenger who allegedly caused two RAF jets to be scrambled to escort a plane back to Stansted Airport has been sent an £85,000 bill by the airline.

Chloe Haines, 25, is accused by Jet2 of a ‘catalogue of aggressive, abusive and dangerous behaviour’ on a flight bound for Dalaman in Turkey, including trying to open the aircraft doors during the flight.

The flight had to be escorted back to Stansted Airport by two Typhoon fighter jets while she was restrained by cabin crew and customers.

A former bouncer who tackled her to the ground said she kicked, punched and screamed at the stewards...."

No specified in the online version, but the printed edition states £85k is for "fuel, diversions and delays." She's also got a lifetime ban from the airline.

 

[3point14]

Apparently she threatened to kill everyone.

https://nypost.com/2019/07/05/airli...after-storming-cockpit-sparking-hijack-alert/

I suspect she has, er, issues.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

You can get a fighter escort for only £85,000 ?

good to know.

 

[3point14]

You can get a fighter escort for only £85,000 ?

good to know.

I'm not sure she's being charged for the RAF is she? I thought that was just the cost of turning the plane around? (which is an expensive business, with fuel costs, an unplanned landing and take off (and everything in between) and the plane may have had to drop fuel to land.

 

[Information Analyst]

You can get a fighter escort for only £85,000 ?

good to know.

The Royal Air Force has not presented their bill yet....

 

[Belz...]

Metro: Airline sends £85,000 bill to woman who tried to open emergency doors mid-flight

"A passenger who allegedly caused two RAF jets to be scrambled to escort a plane back to Stansted Airport has been sent an £85,000 bill by the airline.

Chloe Haines, 25, is accused by Jet2 of a ‘catalogue of aggressive, abusive and dangerous behaviour’ on a flight bound for Dalaman in Turkey, including trying to open the aircraft doors during the flight.

The flight had to be escorted back to Stansted Airport by two Typhoon fighter jets while she was restrained by cabin crew and customers.

A former bouncer who tackled her to the ground said she kicked, punched and screamed at the stewards...."

No specified in the online version, but the printed edition states £85k is for "fuel, diversions and delays." She's also got a lifetime ban from the airline.

Sounds like a mental health issue to me.

 

[Vixen]

You can get a fighter escort for only £85,000 ?

good to know.

Yeah, that would be a wedding party with a bang.*

(*The fighter jets caused a sonic boom over Stansted as they scrambled to escort the plane.)

 

[Vixen]

Sounds like a mental health issue to me.

It's called Chav-itis.

 

[Tolls]

Yeah, that would be a wedding party with a bang.*

(*The fighter jets caused a sonic boom over Stansted as they scrambled to escort the plane.)

For which some people have sent the MoD a bill for damage to their stuff:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-48964826

 

[Shadowdweller]

I suspect she has, er, issues.

Sounds like a mental health issue to me.

This leads me to suspect drugs:

A former bouncer who tackled her to the ground said she kicked, punched and screamed at the stewards. He said: ‘She was only petite but she had the strength of a fully-grown man. The only time I’ve seen anything like that was when someone had just dropped acid, she had super strength.’

 

[Armitage72]

Apparently she threatened to kill everyone.

https://nypost.com/2019/07/05/airli...after-storming-cockpit-sparking-hijack-alert/

I suspect she has, er, issues.

Maybe she said "it" was going to kill everyone. She was just trying to stop the gremlin that was on the wing.

 

[Jungle Jim]

You can get a fighter escort for only £85,000 ?

good to know.

Why the fighter escort? What could they have possibly done?

 

[Pope130]

Why the fighter escort? What could they have possibly done?

If the aircraft was in difficulty and lost, the interceptors could have helped lead it to a safe airfield. Had the aircraft been taken over by hijackers they could have brought it down before it was flown into an office building.

 

[Information Analyst]

Why the fighter escort? What could they have possibly done?

Shot it down if it turned out to be a 9/11-style hijacking., or escort it to an alternate landing place if less severe. It's not the first time it's happened. It's not even the first time this year.

 

[theprestige]

Why the fighter escort? What could they have possibly done?

A modern day Rip Van Winkle.

 

[Butter!]

She's out on BAIL?

Wow. I was under the impression that saying, "That's da bomb!" on an airplane would get one tossed in a black site.

I wonder what the hell her problem was. Obviously, they must have determined that she wasn't a terrorist following her arrest. Drugs, I assume.

Sidenote: I noticed another detail in that article - it said that her previous fine for drunk driving was the equivalent of 212 American dollars? Is that a misprint? I believe that fines for drunk driving here are a LOT higher. Like, a LOT LOT higher.

 

[Jungle Jim]

If the aircraft was in difficulty and lost, the interceptors could have helped lead it to a safe airfield. Had the aircraft been taken over by hijackers they could have brought it down before it was flown into an office building.

Thank you for the reply. Yes, I understand that an escort might be handy if a plane is lost or has been taken over by hijackers. Neither of these incidents occurred. In this case it seems unnecessary to send an escort.

 

[Butter!]

Thank you for the reply. Yes, I understand that an escort might be handy if a plane is lost or has been taken over by hijackers. Neither of these incidents occurred. In this case it seems unnecessary to send an escort.

I feel certain that "inept hijacker" (or perhaps "inept terrorist") seemed like a possibility to the people on the plane. Who tries to open the freaking door while a passenger plane is in flight?

 

[Pope130]

Thank you for the reply. Yes, I understand that an escort might be handy if a plane is lost or has been taken over by hijackers. Neither of these incidents occurred. In this case it seems unnecessary to send an escort.

I suspect they were operating on the "Better safe than sorry." model.

 

[3point14]

Thank you for the reply. Yes, I understand that an escort might be handy if a plane is lost or has been taken over by hijackers. Neither of these incidents occurred. In this case it seems unnecessary to send an escort.

In which direction would you rather be wrong?