- Five Brits ’caused mischief and a disturbance’ on long haul flight to Las Vegas
- The Airbus A330 has to be diverted to Winnipeg, Canada, on Saturday morning
- The Royal Canadian Mounted Police confirmed the five men were arrested
- One was filmed being led off the plane cursing while other passengers cheered
This is the moment one of the five Brits hauled off a Manchester to Las Vegas plane forced to divert to Canada is strong-armed away by police as he shouted ‘F*** off’ at other passengers.
The five men on Thomas Cook Airlines flight MT2924 were arrested on Saturday morning after it landed at Winnipeg in the province of Manitoba.
It continued to Las Vegas after the ‘disruptive’ Brits were escorted away, arriving more than two and a half hours late.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police confirmed the men were arrested with help from the Canadian Border Services Agency for mischief and causing a disturbance.
Footage has emerged showing one of the British tourists arrested on a Thomas Cook flight from Manchester to Las Vegas being escorted off the plane after it was diverted to Canada
One passenger was seen shouting ‘F*** off’ at others while being lead away by officers
Footage taken by a passenger as one of the men was led off the flight showing him cursing at other holidaymakers as he was removed in what appeared to be handcuffs.
He could be heard turning to one and yelling: ‘F*** off you f***ing Scouse c***.’
Stunned passengers watching on reacted by cheering and filming him with their mobile phones.
The incident was initially described by a spokesman at Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport as a medical emergency – but Thomas Cook Airlines later said there were no reports of any injuries.
The five men hauled off the plane have not been named and it is understood they decided to travel back to Britain after abandoning plans to continue to Las Vegas.
A spokesman for the RCMP said: ‘None of the males resisted officers and all were escorted off the plane in handcuffs without incident.’
The British men were arrested for ‘mischief and causing a disturbance’ but it is understood they have since flown back to the UK
A Thomas Cook Airlines spokesman said: ‘Flight MT2924 from Manchester to Las Vegas on Saturday was diverted to Winnipeg in Canada as result of disruptive passengers.
‘Five passengers were offloaded in Winnipeg. Our flight then continued to Las Vegas with a delay of 2 hours 40 minutes.’
The spokesman said the airline did not fly from Winnipeg so there was no way they would be able to return to the UK with Thomas Cook Airlines from there.
He added: ‘It’s a police matter now so I can’t go into any more detail.’
Five British men have reportedly been arrested after a Thomas Cook flight from Manchester to Las Vegas had to divert to Winnipeg in Canada (pictured: Winnipeg James Armstrong Richardson International Airport where the plane was forced to land)
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