A report about an aggressive passenger was received by the duty department of the linear police department.
Flight attendants explained that after reaching altitude, the man began to behave provocatively. He shouted loudly and provoked conflicts with other passengers, ignoring remarks from those around him.
The situation jeopardized flight safety. The commander of the aircraft flying from Istanbul to Kazan made the decision for an emergency landing at Sochi Airport.
At the airport of the resort city, the 60-year-old foreign citizen was removed from the flight and held accountable under the administrative article for petty hooliganism.
Also read: a drunk female passenger could not fly to Sochi. The incident occurred at Koltsovo Airport in Yekaterinburg.
A police squad was called to the check-in counter for the Yekaterinburg-Sochi flight, where law enforcement officers detained a 50-year-old local resident.
Istanbul
Istanbul is a historic metropolis in Turkey that uniquely straddles two continents, Europe and Asia, across the Bosphorus Strait. It was founded as Byzantium, later became the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire known as Constantinople, and served as the heart of the Ottoman Empire after 1453. The city is famed for its architectural masterpieces that reflect its layered history, most notably the Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque.
Kazan
Kazan is the capital of Tatarstan, Russia, and a historic meeting point of Tatar and Slavic cultures. Its most iconic landmark is the Kazan Kremlin, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which houses the Qolşärif Mosque and the Annunciation Cathedral, symbolizing the city’s long and complex history of Islamic and Orthodox Christian coexistence.
Sochi Airport
Sochi International Airport, originally opened in 1945, is the primary airport serving the resort city of Sochi on the Black Sea coast. It was significantly redeveloped and modernized in the 21st century to accommodate a massive influx of visitors for the 2014 Winter Olympics. Today, it serves as a major gateway for tourists traveling to the popular Sochi region.
Koltsovo Airport
Koltsovo Airport is the primary international airport serving Yekaterinburg, Russia, and a major hub for the Ural region. It was originally built in the 1930s as a military airfield and was later expanded into a significant civilian airport. The airport gained further prominence in the post-Soviet era and was modernized to host world leaders for events like the 2009 Shanghai Cooperation Organisation and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg is a major industrial and cultural city in the Ural Mountains, founded in 1723 by Tsar Peter the Great and named after his wife, Catherine I. It is most infamously known as the site where the last Russian Tsar, Nicholas II, and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918. Today, it is a modern metropolis and a significant economic and educational center in Russia.
