An elderly man had his head "thumped back and forward" in a terrifying air rage incident on a flight to Dublin Airport.
Aileen Barry revealed that the ordeal happened when a passenger took issue with her husband when he tried to recline his seat.
Aileen said the incident happened on a flight from Malaga last week and that they were left scared by the end of the flight, Dublin Live reports.
She told RTE's Liveline: "When we took off the lady behind us, I wouldn't call her a lady, tapped him on the shoulder and asked him would he put his seat up so she could put down her tray.
"We waiting until the trolley finished delivering food for whoever wanted it, we presumed she wanted to have food.
"So he left it for a while and then put his seat down again. He got a tap on his shoulder from this person again and she said 'I cannot relax with your seat back'.
"So then she called a flight attendant over and told her 'this man will not put his seat up I cannot relax".
"He's entitled to put his seat back, everyone else had their seat back. My husband wanted to sleep - we're elder lemons, we're in our 70s.
"The air hostess told her 'he's entitled to put his seat back, put your own seat back!'.
The pair thought that would be that, but unfortunately for Aileen's husband it was the beginning of the flight from hell as the woman then threw her knees into the back of the seat and started "thumping".
Aileen said: "His head was going back and forward. When the steward went by my husband said 'excuse me can you ask the lady to stop banging the back of my seat, I can't relax.
"So he [the steward] did, he was very stern with her. He told her her knees were right up in the back of the seat."
Aileen said the woman started doing it again the second the steward left but they were too scared to call him back again.
She said: "I was terrified, we couldn't moved because the flight was absolutely chockerblocked.
"When we were leaving she made a very quick exit."
Aileen said her husband then made a formal complaint over the woman's behaviour.
