'You don’t even realize we’re about to die. This thing is going down': The shocking moment a flyer throws herself onto plane's floor, bangs on cockpit door then strips naked

'You don’t even realize we’re about to die. This thing is going down': The shocking moment a flyer throws herself onto plane's floor, bangs on cockpit door then strips naked

A Frontier Airlines plane was forced to turn around moments before take-off so police could remove a distressed passenger who threw herself onto the floor and removed her clothes.

Footage captured by a passenger on the flight from Denver to Portland shows the woman telling travellers, including young children, they would die in a plane crash

At one point in the video, the woman, who is on her back on the floor, pounds on the cockpit door with her hands and then lifts her legs over her head to kick it.

The incident occurred as the Airbus A319, carrying 148 passengers and five crew members, taxied to a runway and then returned to its gate at Denver International Airport on Monday morning.

A Frontier Airlines spokesman said the woman has been banned from flying with the company again. 

Part of the incident was recorded by passenger Devin Harman, who posted three-and-a-half minutes of footage on YouTube.

The clip shows the woman standing in front of the cockpit door and complaining that she has ‘no air’ as a female flight attendant encourages her to calm down.

Small children are heard talking in the background when the woman says ‘We are going down’ and then grabs at her T-shirt and begins to cry.

She curls up on the floor and apologizes before saying: ‘You don’t even realize we’re about to die. This thing is going down.’

In an announcement, a pilot tells passengers to be patient, and moments later the woman begins to scream and bang on the cockpit door.

She tries to stand up but the cabin crew member blocks her and keeps her at the front of the plane away from other passengers.

The woman asks 'Are we about to die?' and responds with 'OK' after the flight attendant tells her 'No'.

The woman then rolls onto her back, kicks off her sandals and starts hitting the cockpit door once again.

Harman told FOX31 the woman’s behavior was erratic inside the airport, and when she got on board she tried to pry open an overhead panel and pull out an oxygen mask as the plane taxied to the runway.

He said: ‘At that point she had enough and she jumped out of her seat, jumped over the person closest to the aisle there.’

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He said he stopped recording the incident because the woman began to strip naked.

The plane flew to Portland after the woman was removed by police.

MailOnline Travel has contacted Denver Police Department and Harman for comment.

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