AN NHS worker has pleaded guilty to a fracas with her boyfriend on a air plane that almost forced the flight to be diverted when they swore at cabin crew and rowed with passengers.

Carola Conti, 26, of Hove and her boyfriend Anthony Grant, 27, Sevenoaks, Kent were flying home from travelling in Cambodia when they were arrested when they landed at Heathrow Airport on March 7 this year.

The couple boarded the 13-hour flight from Kuala Lumpur to London and started threatening staff. They then swore at passengers and spilt drinks in a fracas so bad that the pilot considered an emergency diversion.

The couple were both charged with one count of entering an aircraft while drunk and one count of behaving in a threatening and abusive manner towards a member of cabin staff.

The pair appeared in court at Uxbridge Magistrates, where Conti and her musician boyfriend, pleaded guilty to the charges which carry a maximum sentence of two years in jail.

The case was sent to crown court, as count one was deemed too serious to be sentenced at magistrates’.

Conti and Grant will appear at Isleworth Crown Court on May 9 to be sentenced.