Airline passenger who shouted ‘we’re all going to die’ banned for life

A passenger who confronted and abused other customers, shouted “we’re all going to die” and even kicked the seat of a child on a flight to East Midlands Airport, has been jailed at Leicester Crown Court.

Jet2 says Kiran Jagdev, of Leicester, displayed a continued pattern of totally unacceptable behaviour on our Tenerife to East Midlands flight in January this year. Despite the intervention of an off-duty police officer, Jet2 says its crew were left with no choice other than to call for police assistance upon arrival.

Ms Jagdev was sentenced to six months in prison, with judge Philip Head saying: “This demands a deterrent sentence so people who travel by air and get drunk will know there are consequences.”

Phil Ward, managing director at Jet2 said: “It is very clear that drinking to excess, including the illicit consumption of duty free alcohol on the aircraft, contributed significantly to this behaviour. This is why, as a family-friendly airline flying millions of people on holiday every year, Jet2.com is calling for measures to better control the sale and consumption of alcohol purchased at airports.

“I would like to pay tribute to both our crew and the police for the way they handled this incident. I can assure customers that as a family-friendly airline we will not under any circumstances tolerate this behaviour, and Ms Jagdev has been banned from flying with Jet2.com for life.”