Woman goes into labour, police called on board and a 10 hour delay... passenger describes TUI flight from hell

A passenger has shared her experience of a 'flight from hell' which included a 10 hour delay, a woman going into labour, police being called onboard and an emergency landing. Naomii Thomas was on board the delayed flying on a TUI Dreamliner flight from Cape Verde to Bristol on June 8 when passengers reported it briefly 'bouncing hard off the ground' at Bristol Airport before taking off again and sending an emergency 7700 code to land urgently elsewhere, WalesOnline reports.

The plane eventually landed in Birmingham where passengers then had to wait another two hours on the runway - leading to some getting so angry that the police were called to remove them and monitor the situation. But, as Noamii describes, these weren’t the first strange occurrences involving the flight, and she believes problems had started before the plane had even taken off from the African island.

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“Initially the flight back to Bristol was delayed by two hours and 45 minutes,” the 36-year-old said from her home in Cardiff where she finally returned with her partner around ten hours over schedule. “We asked if we could stay in the hotel because it would mean avoiding a six-hour wait at Cape Verde Airport, but they said no and instead gave us a voucher worth five euros.

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“The airport was manic due to delays. It’s only a small airport and because we were all there earlier than we really needed to be with these vouchers the queues were huge. It was an absolute nightmare.”

TUI apologised for the "inconvenience caused to customers onboard" and said the "safety and wellbeing of passengers and crew is always our