- A father and two sons were arrested after a wild attempt to get to a plane after missing their flight.
- The passengers broke onto the jet bridge once boarding closed for the flight from Turkey to Israel.
- A video shows one of the men then dangling from the bridge, jumping off, and heading for the plane.
A father and two sons were arrested in Turkey on Tuesday after they made a wild attempt to get to their plane after missing the flight.
The three Israeli passengers missed an AnadoluJet flight from Istanbul's Sabiha Gökçen International Airport to Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport, arriving at the gate after boarding had ended, according to The Times of Israel.
But that didn't stop them from going to extreme lengths to get to the plane.
The newspaper reported that they broke onto the boarding bridge after the plane had already moved away, with one family member leaping down from it and approaching the plane.
—Yeni Şafak (@yenisafak) July 4, 2023
Footage of the incident, shared by the Turkish newspaper Yeni Safak, shows one would-be passenger dangling from the platform before dropping down onto the runway. It's unclear from the footage if the others followed him.
According to the Israeli media outlet N12 News, the men wanted to stop the plane from taking off.
The footage shows at least one of the men later being surrounded by security staff at the airport. According to The Times of Israel, the three men were taken to a Turkish police station.
N12 News reported that the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that it knew about the incident and that it was being dealt with by the Israeli consulate in Istanbul.
The Consulate General of Israel in Istanbul and Sabiha Gökçen International Airport did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.