'Beserk' plane passenger tied down with seatbelts after trying to smash window

A man was tied down by passengers (Image: East2West)

A plane passenger had to be tied down with seatbelts and forced the aircraft to make an emergency landing after reportedly screaming "like an animal", kicking employees, and trying to break a window.

Russian news outlet Baza said that the Dubai-Moscow flight was forced down by a “berserk passenger”, and landed at the same airport where the Embraer jet believed to have been shot down by a Russian missile had began its journey.

Passenger Roman Pakhomov, 38, was offloaded and detained in Baku, East2West reports.

The captain ordered him to be subdued, but Mr Pakhomov reportedly “tore off the plastic handcuffs and adhesive tape, after which he punched his fists on the window”.

The man reportedly went beserk (Image: East2West)

The man reportedly went “wild” after consuming an unknown alcoholic substance he had brought onto the five hour long flight.

The plane remained grounded for two hours 45 minutes at Heydar Aliyev International Airport, before flying to the Russian capital Moscow.

Mr Pakhomov has since claimed that he could not remember his actions after sobering up.

An investigation into what happened has begun.

The incident on Friday came as Russia is engulfed in criticism after suspicions its armed forces opened fire in airspace near Grozny in Chechnya at an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger plane with 67 people on board on Christmas Day.

The flight was travelling from Dubai to Moscow (Image: East2West)

The plane eventually crash landed in Aktau, Kazakhstan.

38 people were killed, including both pilots.

As the pilots struggled to control the plane, it is believed that they had tried to at one point to return to their home airport, Baku.