«Don’t leave, stay with me in Turin». A phone call from his girlfriend was enough to convince a passenger on a flight departing from Boxes and directed to Madrid to go down. All the while the plane – the flight was the 12 o’clock flight to the Spanish capital, operated by Iberiawith expected arrival at 2.20pm – was already on the tarmac during taxiingwith the engines running, ready for take-off maneuvers.
So, after answering a call on his cell phone, the boy stood up shouting: «Stop everything, I have to get off, I have to get off», heading towards the stewardesses, busy explaining the safety maneuvers, and the pilot. What happened in recent days at Pertini airport seems like a scene from a romantic film.
One of those stories that end with a happy ending. A situation that caused a delay, albeit limited, to the flight, and numerous inconveniences. The man got to be disembarked, as is his right. «Everything happened in complete tranquility – they explain from Sagat, the company that manages the Turin airport -. Obviously this requires timing. Since it is his right, the passenger was not fined.”
According to some witnesses there was also an argument between the man and the crew. Who ultimately decided that the passenger, nervous and determined to get off, could have been a problem for flight safety.
In any case, the plane arrived in Madrid at 3.20pm instead of an hour earlier, without any particular complaints from the other passengers, and love seems to have triumphed.
