Woman causes SEVEN HOUR delay on flight – by demanding she leave the plane before take-off to DIVORCE HER HUSBAND
The bizarre incident occurred on a flight from Moscow to Vladivostok
TECHNICAL problems, security issues, bad weather - these are all reasons you'd expect to be behind a seven-hour flight delay.
But unlucky jet-setters in Russia were forced to wait for seven hours - not because something had gone wrong, but because a fellow passenger decided she wanted to divorce her husband.
The unnamed woman, in her 40s, boarded the flight from Moscow to Vladivostok along with over 500 hundred other passengers on Monday.
But soon after boarding, she allegedly told stewards on the Rossiya Airline flight that she had to get off the plane - as she needed to get a divorce.
The plane was almost ready to take off when the bizarre event took place - but the woman demanded to be let off the aircraft.
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Witnesses reported that the woman told airline staff: "I am not in the mood to fly now."
Unfortunately for everyone else on the flight, safety regulations meant that everyone had to disembark - and video footage captured by Elena Shteynikova shows irritated passengers waiting to leave the flight, before reluctantly trudging down the steps onto the tarmac.
The picture was captioned: "One girl decided not to fly to the coastal town. Moreover, she changed her mind at the time of takeoff.
"(For) more than an hour (they) tried to persuade her to stay."
And the scorned woman isn't the first passenger wreaking havoc on board. In June, a woman was banned from all Ryanair flights after failing to prevent her son from spitting at other passengers and becoming abusive.
The disgusting incident, which occurred on a flight from Barcelona, led to the woman, along with her husband and three children, being escorted away by police at Liverpool John Lennon airport.
Meanwhile, a pilot on a flight heading to Latvia from London was forced to touch down early in Gdansk, Poland after a man became drunk and aggressive towards passengers and staff.
