Unruly Off-Duty Flight Attendant Disrupts Flight
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By Sarah RumpfJun 12th, 2021, 6:57 pm
An unruly passenger disrupted a Delta flight from Los Angeles to Atlanta, getting on the intercom and even threatening to take the plane down, before being subdued. And the perpetrator was reportedly one of Delta's own flight attendants, off-duty at the time.
CNN Newsroom'sPamela Brown showed video clips from the alarming incident, edited to blur the faces of those involved. According to Brown, the alleged perpetrator went to the front of the plane about two hours before the plane was scheduled to land, where he seized the intercom. The flight's captain called on "all able-bodied men to help with the emergency," and passengers assisted the crew until they were able to successfully subdue the man.
A passenger who was on the flight spoke with Brown and said that the man had ordered passengers to return to their seats because oxygen masks were going to be required.
The aircraft landed "without incident," reported Brown, neither the flight attendants nor passengers were injured seriously enough to warrant medical attention, and law enforcement on the ground restrained the man after the plane made an emergency landing in Oklahoma City.
Delta has confirmed that the man was an off-duty flight attendant employed by their company, but other details about his identity are not yet known. It is unknown if he is still employed by Delta, but, as Brown noted, that could change at any time, especially if criminal charges are filed related to the incident on the plane.
The troubling scene is the "latest among a string of cases" aboard flights since the pandemic restrictions have eased, said Brown, with 2900 of this type of case reported so far by the FAA.
Watch the video above, via CNN.
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Are these people going to jail? You never hear too much about these incidents beyond the day they happen.
Not only should he go to jail, since he threatened mass murder, he should loose his second amendment rights for life. Do I have to mention getting fired? Probably not.
''threatened to take the plane down'' A act of terrorism and mass murder.
A long jail sentence should be his reward.
Not only jail, but a big assed fine, and be put on a permanent no fly list. Other passengers, if they incurred any financial hardships due to being diverted should be able to collect in civil court.
I assume that is some sort of typo.
I thought the same thing and then I googled it and 2900 reports of unruly passengers are correct.
Kinda sounds like something inside this guy snapped.