Plane Forced into Emergency Landing after Passenger Freaks Out and Threatens Everyone
Andrew Cunningham
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02/11/2022
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Passengers onboard a Wednesday evening flight from New York to Orlando, Florida found themselves in a scary situation after a man erupted into shouting during the flight. The man who has not been identified started yelling that a mother and her (possibly autistic child as another passenger describes) sitting behind him were jabbing him with a needle to steal his DNA. He continued to show that he would "smack every Motherf**ker on this plane", threatened a baby, and eventually said he would kill everyone on board.
The airplane was forced to divert from its intended destination to make an emergency landing in Raleigh, North Carolina because of the incident. In the videos shared on Twitter, you can see several male passengers physically restraining and tieing down the man as the plane prepares to land.
The incident comes after the Federal Aviation Administration adopted a stricter legal enforcement policy against unruly airline passengers in the wake of a rise in incidents where passengers have disrupted flights with threatening or violent behavior. The agency has received 394 unruly passenger reports so far in 2022.
The airplane was forced to divert from its intended destination to make an emergency landing in Raleigh, North Carolina because of the incident. In the videos shared on Twitter, you can see several male passengers physically restraining and tieing down the man as the plane prepares to land.
The incident comes after the Federal Aviation Administration adopted a stricter legal enforcement policy against unruly airline passengers in the wake of a rise in incidents where passengers have disrupted flights with threatening or violent behavior. The agency has received 394 unruly passenger reports so far in 2022.
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-Emergency landing in North Carolina on Frontier Flight F9 1335
— GOTC (@GOTC86994727) February 10, 2022
-Citizens arrest
-Guy started flipping out saying the lady behind him was sticking him with needle to steal dna
-Said he’d smack every mf on this plane
-Threatened a baby
-Said he’d kill everyone on this plane pic.twitter.com/0kYiDYMlod
Interview with Frontier Flight 1335 passenger that was diverted to Raleigh, NC en route to Orlando due to a passenger that said his DNA was being stolen. @yahiighness. Please contact Savannah on the Twitter address cited for interviews. #frontier @TMZ @ABC7NYNewsDesk @NBCNews pic.twitter.com/XBLkitFRUA
— GOTC (@GOTC86994727) February 10, 2022
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