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Philip Dewey

Drunken stag party on Alicante plane threw bottle of gin at toddler's head

A toddler had a bottle of gin thrown at their head by a rowdy stag party on a Vueling flight to Alicante.

Passengers on the Cardiff-based flight complained of drunken behaviour from a group of around 25 to 30 men, which involved frequent swearing and scaring children by loudly talking about the plane crashing.

The group were told to keep the noise down by flight attendants but they continued to be served alcohol, it has been claimed.

They were even given spirits when the plane had run out of beer, reports Wales Online .

Esther Jenkins, 44, from Pontypridd, was among the passengers on the flight on July 18 who had to put up with the behaviour.

Cardiff Airport where the Vueling flight took off from (Walesonline/Rob Browne)

She said: "The group were noisy throughout the flight, using bad language in their every day conversation. As the flight went on, they became louder.

"A steward did ask them to keep the noise down on two occasions, however, alcohol was continued to be served to them.

"It got to the point where there was no beer left so they were then being served wine and shorts.

"I was aware of a miniature bottle of gin being thrown down the aeroplane narrowly missing a young toddler in the aisle. I would like to think that this was not thrown intentionally.

"At one point, there was a discussion going on about the flight crashing which scared my 10 year old daughter who is a frequent flyer.

"About halfway through the flight, one of the group did say to some of the others about watching their language due to there being young children on the flight to which he had the reply 'We are on f**king holidays too'

"They also had a large speaker with them and thought it would be funny to start playing music as we landed."

When Mrs Jenkins complained about the group's behaviour, Vueling told her their crew were trained to "analyse and identify" dangerous situations from passengers and they had the "situation under control to assure other passengers' safetey.

Vueling have been approached for comment.

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