More than 200 passengers were evacuated from a holiday jet after a British teenager allegedly “freaked out” and began lashing out at others on the flight.
The pilot of the Monarch flight to Birmingham called police after the 17-year-old was said to have turned aggressive as the plane taxied to the runway in Palma, Majorca.
Civil guards restrained the boy and took him away in handcuffs when he resisted arrest.
Police sources said they suspected he was high on drugs and had tried to board flight ZC959 straight after leaving a local nightclub.
Passengers and crew are thought to have helped pin him down in the gully before police were called on Friday morning.
One passenger, who asked not to be named, said: "He freaked out and started lashing out at people as the plane was taxiing on the runway before take-off.
"People started screaming and children crying. It was like a scene from a movie."
A source close to the investigation said: "The pilot asked the control tower to call police minutes before take-off when (the teenager) started lashing out at other passengers.
"He called again moments later to say he was ordering the evacuation of the plane.
"Civil Guard officers had to race across the runway. He was virtually alone in the plane when they boarded and had to use physical force to arrest him.
"He looked as high as a kite and detectives suspect he may still have thought he was in a nightclub, not a plane."
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