PLANE CHAOS AS BOOZE BAM SPITS ON MUM

Drunk pair arrested after holiday jet forced to divert

- ALEXANDER LAWRIE

A DRUNK thug caused a holiday flight to Turkey to be diverted to Germany after she acted aggressively and spat on a passenger.

Courtney Maich, 27, was being hauled off the plane by German police when she launched the “disgraceful and disgusting” assault on a mother on board the Jet2 flight.

Maich and her partner Alannah O'Neill, 28, had taken off from Edinburgh Airport and were en route to Dalaman on their first ever flight when they began drinking their own alcohol.

The pair, from Dundee, refused to stop shouting and swearing when repeatedly asked to by cabin crew, and Maich was handed a written warning by the captain.

Edinburgh Sheriff Court was told the couple's behaviour forced the captain to divert to Cologne 90 minutes after takeoff, where Maich was escorted from the flight. The plane was grounded for three hours before carrying on to its destination.