For second time this week, violence disrupts El Al flight

Again today, an El Al plane had to be diverted from its route because of a violent passenger: El Al has announced that flight LY 251, that was on its way to Tel Aviv from Tel Aviv to Prague, returned to Tel Aviv because of violent behavior by a passenger that represented a risk to the flight's safety. The decision to return to Ben Gurion Airport was made shortly after take-off, after a "violent passenger" incident was declared. A similar incident occurred in the skies yesterday as well, when an El Al plane flying from Los Angeles to Tel Aviv had to make an emergency landing in Madrid. The emergency landing came after a passenger became unruly and behaved violently towards the air crew, to the point that it was decided that he was jeopardizing the flight's safety. This morning, when the Prague-bound flight returned to Tel Aviv, the police were waiting for the passenger concerned. El Al said: "A criminal complaint has been filed against the passenger, and after the incident has been investigated and the details of how it came about are clear, the company will examine the use of further measures at its disposal, among them putting the passenger on a blacklist, which will mean that he will be forbidden to fly on El Al in the future, and even a claim on account of the damage apparently caused to the company, in order to exhaust the treatment of the matter."<br/>