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Nervous flyer fined for delaying plane

A holiday flight from Glasgow to Tenerife was disrupted by a passenger who was scared of flying.

The Thomson Airways jet was forced to return to the stand after Colin Riddell got up from his seat and started walking around as the Boeing 757 was waiting on the runway to take off.

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