London-Bound Flight Diverted After Passengers Eat Passport, Attempt To Flush It Down Toilet

Last Updated:September 29, 2025, 23:44 IST

One of the passengers tore a few pages from his passport and gulped it down aboard a Milan to London-Stansted flight.

A Ryanair flight from Milan to London was forced to divert after two passengers caused a commotion by destroying their passports mid-air. (IMAGE: News18 FILE)

Two “strange" flyers aboard a Milan to London-Stansted Ryanair flight forced the pilot to divert the plane after one of them “ate his passport", while another attempted to flush one down the toilet.

The Daily Star, which first reported the incident, said that other flyers noticed two men began to behave “strange" around 15 to 20 minutes into the journey.

Once the seatbelt signed was switched off, one of the men, seated at the front of the plane started ripping pages out of his passport and started eating them, “freaking out" fellow passengers in the process. While another attempted to “flush his passport down the toilet".

“Staff were notified and went to see what was going on at the front of the plane. Suddenly, the whole mood changed – no one onboard knew what was going on; these people were acting weird," a person familiar with the development was quoted as saying by Daily Star.

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