Mother in BA jet rampage demanded 6 Bloody Marys

A DrUNkeN woman attacked three cabin crew on a British Airways flight to south Africa after being denied six Bloody marys, a court heard yesterday.

mother-of-two emma Langford, 47, had to be handcuffed and strapped to her seat after a rampage which left the plane littered with broken plates and glasses.

she was travelling from Heathrow to Cape Town with her son in £4,000 seats – and intended to check into a rehab centre to ‘dry out’. Isleworth Crown Court was told she had ‘crashed catastrophically’ into heavy drinking after the breakdown of her marriage. A judge heard Langford, pictured, of old Basing, Hampshire, approached cabin crew saying she was ‘thirsty’ and demanded alcohol 35 minutes after take-off.

she later launched a tirade of abuse – asking BA staff if they could afford her seats and calling stewardesses fat.

she punched one worker, hit another and shoved a third against the aircraft door before throwing a tray of plates and glasses to the floor – cutting a cabin crew member’s leg. A statement from one of the stewardesses said: ‘miss Langford demanded I give her six Bloody marys and I told her I would be serving her the one drink for now. she kicked me in the back of the legs and said “your a*** is massive”.

‘she called me chubby and fat a***. It was massively offensive and hurt my confidence. I felt humiliated in from of the whole cabin.’

Guy Wyatt, defending, said: ‘It’s striking that she was travelling to south Africa to book herself into residential rehabilitation. she knew she needed it. Anxieties got the better of her and she crashed catastrophically into heavy drinking – something that she had done before.’

Judge Nicholas Wood delayed sentencing for reports. Langford pleaded guilty to assault, criminal damage, being drunk on an aircraft and behaving in a threatening and abusive manner. she will next appear in court on march 6.