In a scene straight out of a movie, a man was arrested after jumping onto the tarmac and chasing a taxiing Ryanair aircraft at Dublin Airport Thursday morning.
According to BBC, 23-year-old Patrick Kehoe was late for his flight and began banging on a terminal window to get the ground crew's attention before running after the plane shortly before 7 a.m. local time.
Kehoe was pursued and ultimately restrained by Ryanair staff before airport police arrived to arrest him.
An eyewitness told Ireland's public service broadcaster RTE that the man was "quite determined" to make the flight, pointing out that he chased the plane "with his suitcase under his arm."
"A male and female passenger were late for a Ryanair flight to Amsterdam this morning and arrived at the boarding gate after the flight had closed," the airline confirmed in a statement.
"They were engaging with Ryanair staff at the gate and the male passenger was becoming agitated. He was banging on the window to try and get the aircraft to wait...and made his way onto the apron, trying to flag the aircraft down."
The man was charged with criminal damage to a door lock and has since been released on bail. The flight departed roughly 20 minutes behind scheduled but landed in Amsterdam on time.
Dublin Airport is among the top 15 busiest in Europe and hosted more than 21.2 million passengers in the first eight months of this year, up 6 percent from 2017.
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