I had a horrific time after a drunk kicked off on my flight to Turkey and we had to make an emergency stop

A Preston woman has spoken of the utter chaos that unfolded on her flight to Turkey on Tuesday when a drunken passenger caused outrage mid-flight.

Tracy Ryan was travelling with her three children aged between seven and 15 when all hell broke loose and the pilot was forced to land in Serbian capital Belgrade due to a passenger being drunk on the flight.

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Video footage shows the man in a near physical altercation with another passenger before disrupting the cockpit. She said: ”My flight from Manchester to Dalaman XQ505 at 7.20pm was forced to land in Serbian capital Belgrade due to a passenger drunk.

“Two males boarded in Manchester Terminal for the 17.20pm Sun Express flight to Dalaman.

“The male was already intoxicated and the flight attendants continued to serve him on board.

“He got loud and started shouting at other passengers, who then started shouting back. “Two big passengers then flew down the aisle of the plane and knocked him to the floor and knelt on him and the flight attendants brought tie wraps to tie him up.

However the pilot said prepare to land and I asked where are we landing and was told the capital of Serbia which was Belgrade.

We landed very fast and after circling for half an hour the Serbian Police came on board and removed the man.

Tracy, who is on holiday until Tuesday, added: “It was the most horrific two hours. Even the poor cabin crew from Sun Express were beside themselves. “My son was asked to move seats so they could get the assailant onto the back row.”

She added that they were given water as they then sat on the plane for another two hours while the pits filled in the paper work and refilled the plane with fuel before they finally made their way to Dalaman .

“People were screaming and kids were crying. It was an awful and quite scary experience for the children.”

A SunExpress spokesperson told the Manchester Evening News that the passenger was removed from the aircraft by local police and the aircraft continued to Dalaman after the passenger's disembarkation.

They added that the ‘safety and security of passengers and crew is of the highest priority’.