Watch: Airline Passenger Tries Entering Cockpit, Screaming 'Allahu Akbar'

A Transavia flight, traveling from Paris to Tunis, was forced to divert after a passenger shouted "Allahu Akbar" and tried to enter the cockpit. Videos of the incident were shared online showing staff wrestling with the man while the plane was mid-air.

The Boeing 737-800 landed at Nice-Côte d’Azur Airport due to the unruly passenger, Mirror U.K. reported. The video showed other passengers shouting as the man behaved erratically. He was finally controlled by airline crew. The video ends with the pilot addressing passengers over the tannoy system on board the flight.

While it is unclear what triggered the incident, Mirror U.K. said that the passenger became erate and acted out after he was not allowed to pray in the aisle of the plane.

In November 2018, an Irish flight passenger was arrested and charged after he allegedly tried to break into the cockpit and assaulted a flight attendant on board a Delta Air Lines flight DL41, flying from Los Angeles to Sydney. After he allegedly attacked one of the flight attendants, he was restrained for the remainder of the journey.

In another incident in September of last year, a passenger on an India-based IndiGo airline flight was removed after he tried to enter the cockpit to charge his mobile phone. The incident took place on the plane traveling from the eastern Indian city of Kolkata to Mumbai, in the country's west.

Authorities said the drunk passenger attempted to enter the cockpit minutes before the plane was set to takeoff.

"Following standard operating procedures, the captain operating flight 6E-395 from Mumbai to Kolkata (Sept. 24, 2018) had initiated the offloading of the passenger on grounds of security violation," a representative for the airline said in a statement at the time.