Incredible footage has captured the moment a have-a-go hero grabbed a drunk passenger and put him in a headlock after he assaulted the cabin crew.
Other fliers can be heard cheering as the aggressive man is taken down during the flight from Girona, Spain to Luton Airport.
The grey-haired hero can be seen jumping out of his seat, before tightening his grip around the man’s throat until he collapses to the ground.
Dean Whiteside, from Dagenham, Essex, was on his way back from a boys’ holiday when he captured the incident on his phone.
The grey-haired hero (shown right) can be seen jumping out of his seat, before tightening his grip around the disruptive man (left) until he collapses to the ground
The 26-year-old said the drunk man had been causing issues on the flight for two hours, before he was finally confronted after the plane touched down in England.
Speaking to The Sun, the labourer said: ‘He was making a nuisance of himself. Over the course of the flight he was singing loudly with his headphones on
‘It was a late flight, everyone was tired and he was rubbing people up the wrong way.
‘The stewardess spent about an hour telling him, “You’re going to need to be quiet or I’ll call the police”.’
When the plane finally landed at about 11pm on June 30, the police were called to deal with the disruptive man.
He is seen trying to push his way past the cabin crew and is heard shouting: ‘Get out of my face.’
The unnamed hero jumps from his aisle and apprehends the man, causing one passenger to say: ‘You’re a powerful b****** doing that, man’
The man collapses to the floor as the grey-haired hero (pictured) applies a chokehold on him
At this point, the unnamed hero jumps from his aisle and apprehends the man, causing one passenger to say: ‘You’re a powerful b****** doing that, man.’
Mr Whiteside added: ‘I could see it brewing up that’s the reason I got my phone out, ready to film it. The guy was lifeless in his arms like a rag doll.’
It comes as Ryanair called on UK airports to enforce a two-drink limit after it was revealed the number of passengers arrested for drunken behaviour has increased by half.
The budget airline has already banned customers from drinking duty-free alcohol on flights in response to the rise, which has taken place over the last year.
It has also stopped people flying from Glasgow and Manchester to Alicante and Ibiza from bringing any alcohol on board the aircraft at all to improve behaviour.
When the plane finally landed at about 11pm on June 30, the police were called to deal with the disruptive man
The company is now urging airports to ban the sale of alcohol before 10am and to limit the number of drinks per boarding pass to a maximum of two.
There was a total of 387 in the year to February 2017, up from 255 in the period from February 2015 to 2016, according to the statistics.
A RyanAir spokesman told MailOnline: ‘The crew of this flight from Girona to London Luton requested police assistance upon arrival after a passenger became disruptive inflight.
‘The aircraft landed normally and the passenger was met by police. We will not tolerate unruly or disruptive behaviour at any time and the safety and comfort of our customers, crew and aircraft is our number one priority.
‘This is now a matter for local police. This is exactly why we are calling for significant changes to prohibit the sale of alcohol at airports.
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It comes as Ryanair called on UK airports to enforce a two-drink limit after it was revealed the number of passengers arrested for drunken behaviour has increased by half (stock)
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