A beauty therapist was kicked off a Ryanair flight after she got drunk and refused to wear a face mask, a court heard.
Mum-of-two Hayley Box, 34, was headed to Ibiza to commemorate a friend who died on the Spanish party island.
Box, who runs a business which gives out beauty treatments plus anti wrinkle injection injections, had been due to arrive in Ibiza to comfort loved ones following the death of a friend from a drug overdose.
But she was arrested after she repeatedly tried to board the Ryanair flight having earlier consumed more than a bottle of white wine ahead of her journey.
Cabin crew alerted officers after she rebuffed requests to wear her face covering as she boarded the aircraft and also failed to produce her passport - instead sitting in her seat and fastening her seatbelt to await takeoff.
She became abusive with officers as she was taken off the plane and escorted to a waiting police van, a court heard.
She later claimed she was so drunk she could not remember trying to get on the aircraft.
At Manchester Magistrates Court Box who lives in Shifnal, near Telford, Shropshire admitted being drunk on a plane and was fined £120.
The incident occurred on September 3 last year after Box checked into the Clayton Hotel at Manchester Airport having dropping her children with a babysitter.
She then began drinking wine in her room ahead of her getting on board flight FR2626.
Prosecutor Rachel Dixon said: ''Her flight was due to depart shortly after 6am. She boarded the plane. She was approached by the cabin manager. The cabin manager asked her to put on her face mask, but the defendant was non-compliant.
''The cabin manager said the defendant was slow to respond and hear the instructions. The defendant was also asked several times for her passport but she did not comply with these requests.
''The cabin manager then made the decision to remove her from the plane and he asked her to leave.
"She did not comply and he told her that she could leave voluntarily or leave with the police. She then decided to fasten her seatbelt and the police were contacted.
''As the police arrived, the defendant stood up and became quite aggressive.
"She started crying, claiming that her friend had died and that she needed to go to Ibiza. As the police started climbing the steps, she removed herself.
''But then the defendant then tried to return to the plane, and they took her off again.
"She was abusive towards officers. They took her to a terminal building in order to be put into a police van but when she was approaching the van, she was abusive again.
"She was swearing at the officers. When she got to the van, she pushed away. Once inside, she was subdued."
The prosecutor continued: “In the interview, she said she had consumed a bottle of wine during the early hours of the day. She said she had gone to bed at 2am and slept for one hour.
"She had then consumed a large glass of wine at the airport. She didn’t remember boarding the plane.
''She said she had no recollection of the incident at all. She has no recollection of the conversation with the cabin manager or departing with the police.
"She said her actions resulted from a lack of sleep, eating no food and consuming wine too quickly. It was quite a prolonged incident.''
In mitigation for Box, defence lawyer Jane Shaw said: ''She is mortified and ashamed by the fact that she is in court today.
"She explains that she lost a friend in Ibiza to an overdose in August 2020 and the reason for her going to Ibiza was to console her friends.
''She was very, very raw and had not expected the death of her close friend. She stayed overnight at the Clayton Hotel and drank a bottle of wine.
"She had very little sleep and in the airport to calm herself, she stupidly drank another glass of wine.
''She was very emotional and wanted to calm herself. She doesn’t remember getting onto the plane. She doesn’t remember speaking to the captain.
"The police officer says that during the interview, she did not want to listen to the account of what happened. It was upsetting to her.
Miss Shaw added: “She is a single mother and has two children. She is a beautician by trade and she has had a very hard twelve months and has had to rely on benefit for the first time ever.
"There doesn’t appear to be any substantial delay to the plane. There was a very, very small 10-minute delay caused to the plane.''
Box was also ordered to pay £119 in costs.
