A man has died after being restrained on a Jet2 flight from Cyprus to Manchester after he was allegedly being ‘disruptive’.Callum Kerr, 35, had allegedly been drinking heavily before boarding the flight from Larnaca on 21 June, and passengers have claimed that he argued with his girlfriend until cabin crew moved her to another seat.Those on board the plane also claimed that he then started pacing the aisle and shouting at other people on board the five hour flight, alleging that he went on to headbutt another passenger and threatened to have a fight with others.Two passengers told Talk to the Press that several travellers on board the flight restrained Kerr until the aircraft landed at Manchester Airport at 2:25am on Monday (22 June).
A passenger said: “There was a lot of panic, you don’t know what people might attempt to do on an airplane. My daughter was with us; she was getting panicked and upset by it all.”There were a few panicked children on the plane, too, and the air hostesses were crying. It was a difficult situation; there was a lot of panic and confusion when we were up in the air.”Another claimed that Kerr had been ‘getting increasingly aggressive’, alleging that the man ‘was walking up and down the flight banging on the overhead cabins’.They claimed that during the flight ‘some guy locked eyes with him’ and got headbutted’, saying that cabin crew ‘asked if any big lads could help’ and that ‘around three or four passengers were pinning him down’.”We landed at Manchester, it went silent, he had been shouting for the whole flight, and then he was silent,” they said.”When we touched down, the police came onto the flight, they ran to the back of the plane, shut the curtain, and we could see them doing CPR.