This is the moment a man climbed on top of a passenger plane before taunting flight staff and causing a two-hour delay at a Spanish airport.
The man, reportedly a 24-year-old Moroccan, can be seen shouting at staff and running across a Vueling Airbus A320 at Manises Airport in Valencia shortly before 6pm on Saturday.
His outburst, which saw him mock ground staff, run across the plane twice and take a drink from his bag, lasted for at least 10 minutes and caused a two-hour delay to a flight headed to Amsterdam.
Footage of the incident filmed by a passenger shows the man tapping at his chest and shouting at staff having climbed onto the plane’s roof.
He can be seen dancing around and sticking his fingers in his ears, pretending he could not hear the pleading staff.
At one point, he cracked open a can of drink from his bag before glugging it down on the plane roof as helpless staff watched on.
Civil Guard officers were called to the scene after the man was reported for violating air safety regulations.
They eventually persuaded him to come down and confirmed he was not carrying any weapons in his backpack.
A man climbed on top of a passenger plane before taunting flight staff and causing a two-hour delay at a Spanish airport
The man, reportedly a 24-year-old Moroccan, caused a two-hour delay for a flight headed to Amsterdam
Footage of the incident filmed by a passenger shows the man tapping at his chest and shouting at staff having climbed onto the plane’s roof
Medical assistance was also called to the scene.
He did not pose a risk to passenger safety, according to Spanish Airports and Air Navigation.
The plane later underwent a thorough inspection with Vueling maintenance crew members ruling out damage after examining the upper fuselage.
Police, the airport and Vueling have been contacted for comment.
The incident took place just days after another man caused severe delays to a flight when he undressed, threatened the crew and then attempted to jump out of the aircraft.
The disruption, involving a Russian-speaking man, took place on an Air Asia international flight from Nha Trang, Vietnam to Bangkok, Thailand, with the plane forced into an emergency landing.
Reports in Russian media say that the unidentified bearded man started ‘behaving strangely’ after takeoff.
‘The man – likely drunk – challenged flight attendants to a fistfight,’ said news outlet Readovka.
Footage caught him demanding in English: ‘Don’t touch me’ before ordering the crew to unlock the door.
He then yelled in Russian: ‘Can you ****ing tell the flight attendants that they should ****ing open the goddam door.
At one point, he cracked open a can of drink from his bag before glugging it down on the plane roof as helpless staff watched on
In another incident, a Russian-speaking man forced a flight into an emergency landing
‘Do they want us to die here?’
At one point he ‘announced to the entire cabin that he was going to jump off the plane’.
A Telegram report said that according to passengers, the tourist met another man on the plane and then started behaving strangely.
‘[He was] constantly going to the toilet and being agitated,’ the report read.
‘He then argued with a flight attendant, stating that he needed to get off the plane.
‘Passengers tried to calm him down, but he began shouting and trying to pick a fight with the flight attendants.
‘In the end, the man stripped down to his underwear and ran around the cabin, trying to get off the plane.’
The near-naked tourist then jumped through the open door of the flight before the stairway was in place.
He injured his leg seeking to flee before Thai police caught and arrested him.
