A drunken air passenger was cast away on an island more than 1,000 miles from home after abusing cabin staff. The unidentified man swore at crew and passengers after being refused a bottle of wine on the four-hour flight from Manchester to Tenerife. He became so abusive the fed-up pilot diverted the Monarch Airlines Airbus to Porto Santo island off West Africa. The Atlantic island, which is 10 miles long and three miles wide, is a two-hour ferry journey to Madeira.After the plane touched down, the man was marched off by police and had his luggage dumped on the tarmac.
| To the cheers of the other passengers, I'll wager |
The plane and its remaining passengers then took off again for Tenerife, where it landed almost four hours late after the unscheduled stop.
