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Natalie Neysa Alund covers trending news for USA TODAY. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts said Monday. The attack happened one day after a man aboard a United Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Boston allegedly tried to open a plane’s emergency exit door and then tried to stab a flight attendant.įrancisco Severo Torres, 33, was charged with one count of interference and attempted interference with flight crew members and using a dangerous weapon, the U.S. The incident in question involves a May 23, 2021, Southwest Airlines flight from Sacramento (SMF) to San Diego (SAN). They did not elaborate on the incident or say whether any arrest was made in connection to the attack. The passenger who punched a Southwest flight attendant. "We commend our crew for managing the situation as safety professionals while also ensuring the comfort of the other passengers in the cabin," airline officials said. Southwest airline officials told USA TODAY Wednesday the flight arrived on-time and as scheduled. Flight 976 had departed New York’s John F. “I will sit down in jail for you approaching my family.”īoth men eventually left the plane before takeoff, she said. An American Airlines flight was diverted Wednesday evening after a passenger reportedly assaulted a flight attendant. “Tell them what you did,” the man in the blazer says in the video. Once the passengers managed to separate the two men, the man wearing the blazer swings at the other man, the video shows.Īfter the altercation, video shows the man in the blazer telling passengers that the person he attacked approached his family aggressively. “Get off of him” and “let go," another person yells. In the video, the man in the blazer is seen holding the other passenger in a headlock, yelling obscenities as passengers try to intervene. United Airlines attack, arrest: Man tried to stab United Airlines flight attendant, open plane's emergency door during flight, feds say Video shows man punching fellow passenger Johnson, who recorded the Monday melee said that minutes earlier in the gate area, the man who was punched reportedly accidentally bumped into the the wife of his eventual attacker. The attack landed the passenger in jail and left the flight attendant with two missing teeth. Other passengers eventually jumped in to help de-escalate the situation, Johnson told the outlet. New video and descriptions from witnesses are shedding light on what led up to a Southwest Airlines passenger physically attacking a flight attendant on a plane that departed from Sacramento. “The next thing you know he starts punching the man,” another passenger Caitlin Johnson told CNN Wednesday. Quinonez, 28, of Antelope pleaded guilty to a charge of interfering with a Southwest Airlines flight attendant, according to a news release from the U.S. In the latest reported incident of unruly passenger behavior, Phoenix-bound travelers were boarding Flight 117 at Love Field Airport when a man sporting a blazer stood over another man and started pummeling him, video footage showed. Chaos erupted on a Southwest flight in Dallas after a passenger repeatedly punched a man in an attack captured in a viral video, officials confirmed Wednesday.
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