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Glad to be ALIVE

IN-FLIGHT TERROR

‘She threatened to kill us all’

TINA WILSON, 47, from Hertfordshire, was on board a flight to Turkey when a female passenger tried to open the plane door. Tina, a project  manager, is single and has two daughters, Savanna, 13, and Pelin, six.

Climbing aboard the Jet2 flight last June, I was in the holiday mood. Twelve of us were going away to Turkey for a family holiday. I was sat at the front of the plane, next to my daughters, with other family members nearby.

‘The woman was tiny but her strength was unbelievable’

The plane was delayed in Stansted, and the flight attendant kept being called to see a ‘difficult’ passenger at the back before we’d even left. Then, 15 minutes after take-off, a tiny blonde woman came hurtling towards the front of the plane, her face twisted with rage. Suddenly she lunged at the handle on the door, trying

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