An unusual incident occurred this past weekend at the César Manrique Airport in Lanzarote. According to La Voz, last Friday, May 16, there was an altercation on a flight of the company Ryanair, which was departing from Lanzarote to the city of Malaga.
Flight FR6771 was scheduled to leave the island at 6:55 p.m., but finally took off at 7:18 p.m. According to the air registry, the company closed boarding at 7:05 p.m., twenty minutes later than scheduled.
One of the testimonies collected by La Voz states that "the man tried to access the flight's boarding, but it was already closed, so he used his card" as an airport employee "to open the door" of security from where the plane is boarded. In addition, he allegedly "assaulted a company worker by pushing him and shouting all over the aerodrome." Another testimony narrates that, after crossing the security door, the individual sneaked onto the runway, since the flight was boarding through the runway and not a walkway, as usual. At this point, Aena, the public company in charge of the Airport's management, refuses to make any kind of statement about it. The same from the Civil Guard.
In this way, the conflicting passenger boarded the aircraft already with the boarding closed. At that moment, the crew was responsible for calling the Civil Guard to request his eviction. An agent of the Benemérita and two airport security agents went to the place, as reported by the Unified Association of the Civil Guard (AUGC) in a press release.
Apparently, the man was on duty at the Airport at the time of the incident, but he had this Ryanair flight to Malaga. In fact, "one of the workers tried to contact him for an eviction at the airport itself, but it turns out that he himself was causing the problem," says another testimony.
The Civil Guard is currently investigating the facts, although it has declined to make statements about it and confirm the position held by the evicted worker.