Pilot restrained after yelling to God on flight

The co-pilot of a Heathrow-bound passenger flight had to be forcibly removed from the cockpit after suffering a mental breakdown 30,000ft over the Atlantic.

The co-pilot then had his wrists and ankles bound in front of stunned travellers and was handcuffed to a seat whilst flight AC848 from Toronto diverted to Shannon Airport in Ireland for him to be taken off the plane and into a waiting ambulance.

He was admitted to a psychiatric unit while the 149 passengers were taken to nearby hotels as the airline arranged for a replacement crew to take the aircraft on to Heathrow, where it landed at 4.15pm on Monday, eight hours behind schedule.