A Russian man almost caused a plane to be diverted mid-air after he threatened to blow it if his demands were not met.
The 39-year-old man requested the flight attendant to serve him vodka but things turned chaotic after the staff declined.
According to reports, the man was a hockey player and insisted alcohol was only his beverage of choice and failure to serve him would lead to grave repercussions.
In an online post shared by Russian newspaper Mash, one of the most popular Russian-language channels on the instant messaging service Telegram, the man behaved defiantly” while on the flight and “pestered” the flight attendants to bring him a drink.
He told flight attendants that he had an explosive device, then tried to open the plane’s door.
The flight attendants had to spend the rest of the flight, which doesn’t appear to have been diverted, looking for any evidence of a bomb or weapon.’
Upon arrival in Moscow, security officers from Sheremetyevo Airport and police officers boarded the plane and also searched it.
The suspect was not detained but was denied further travel to Ural and told he had to find a different way there.
In January a similar incident happened and a plane was diverted and stopped for several hours after a bomb threat was made on board.
A chartered flight from Moscow to Goa with 244 people was diverted to Jamnagar airport in India after air traffic control (ATC) at an airport in Goa received an email warning that there was a bomb on board the Russian plane.
