{"id":20623,"date":"2026-08-31T15:56:49","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/flight-from-newcastle-to-crete-diverted-to-thessaloniki-after-british-passengers-alleged-mid-air-disturbance-greek-city-times\/"},"modified":"2026-08-31T15:56:49","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T15:56:49","slug":"flight-from-newcastle-to-crete-diverted-to-thessaloniki-after-british-passengers-alleged-mid-air-disturbance-greek-city-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/flight-from-newcastle-to-crete-diverted-to-thessaloniki-after-british-passengers-alleged-mid-air-disturbance-greek-city-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Flight from Newcastle to Crete diverted to Thessaloniki after British passenger\u2019s alleged mid-air disturbance \u2013 Greek City Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-first=\"S\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">THESSALONIKI \u2014 A flight from Newcastle, England, to Heraklion, Crete, was forced to make an emergency landing at Thessaloniki\u2019s \u201cMakedonia\u201d International Airport after a 42-year-old British passenger allegedly caused a disturbance while intoxicated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The incident occurred on the evening of August 30. According to Greek authorities, the man was in an obvious state of intoxication, created disorder in the cabin, behaved aggressively toward crew members and fellow passengers, and refused to comply with the crew\u2019s instructions. The captain diverted the aircraft to Thessaloniki for the safety of those on board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Airport police arrested the passenger after landing. He faces charges of dangerous interference with aircraft transport, violating the captain\u2019s orders, and disturbing public order under Greece\u2019s Aviation Code.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Published reports have not identified the passenger by name and have not said whether he was traveling with a companion. Coverage refers only to a 42-year-old British national as the person arrested.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The flight had been bound for Heraklion. Similar alcohol-related incidents on holiday routes have led to other diversions in Greek airspace in recent years.<\/p>\n<footer class=\"article-tags entry-footer\">\n<div>\n\t\t<strong>Tags:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\tair rage, aviation, British passenger, Crete, emergency landing, Flight Diversion, Greek news, Heraklion, holiday flight, intoxicated passenger, Makedonia Airport, Newcastle, thessaloniki\t<\/div>\n<\/footer>\n<div class=\"category_container author-information\">\n<div class=\"inner\">\n<section id=\"authorpage\" class=\"authorpage\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/99ca06517608e7af44e9761bf7c358974ffbc4a43859fd8e5be6fc2f50d341af?s=164&amp;r=g\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/99ca06517608e7af44e9761bf7c358974ffbc4a43859fd8e5be6fc2f50d341af?s=328&amp;r=g 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-164 photo lazyload\" height=\"164\" width=\"164\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"author-content\">\n<h5>Bill Giannopoulos<\/h5>\n<h4>Junior Editor<\/h4>\n<p>Bill Giannopoulos is a Junior Editor at Greek City Times, covering Greek and international news, sport, and history.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.gr\" class=\"boxed-icon fill\" target=\"_blank\"><i class=\"fa-solid fa-link\"\/><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/2026\/09\/01\/newcastle-heraklion-flight-diverted-thessaloniki-british-passenger\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THESSALONIKI \u2014 A flight from Newcastle, England, to Heraklion, Crete, was forced to make an emergency landing at Thessaloniki\u2019s \u201cMakedonia\u201d International Airport after a 42-year-old British passenger allegedly caused a disturbance while intoxicated. The incident occurred on the evening of August 30. According to Greek authorities, the man was in an obvious state of intoxication, &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Flight from Newcastle to Crete diverted to Thessaloniki after British passenger\u2019s alleged mid-air disturbance \u2013 Greek City Times\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/31\/flight-from-newcastle-to-crete-diverted-to-thessaloniki-after-british-passengers-alleged-mid-air-disturbance-greek-city-times\/#more-20623\" aria-label=\"Read more about Flight from Newcastle to Crete diverted to Thessaloniki after British passenger\u2019s alleged mid-air disturbance \u2013 Greek City Times\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/greekcitytimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/makedonia_upscale.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}