Video: Panic on flight to Atlanta when passenger tried to open plane door

Panic erupted among passengers and crew on a flight en route to Los Angeles to Atlanta, at United States, which had to be hijacked to perform a emergency landing when a passenger attempted to open the door of the aircraft in mid-flight.

As reported by the agency AFP, the authorities indicated that the passenger attacked two flight attendants and threatened to shoot down the plane.

The terrifying uproar occurred late Friday in the in front of Delta flight 1730, according to the airline and the media. While a man struggled with flight attendants -and said several times that he was going “shoot down the plane“-, the pilot asked on the sound system that “all the healthy men” came.

Several, including one pilot out of service, they pounced on him and, after a violent struggle captured on video, they realized dominate man, assured the police.

The plane, which was heading from the west coast towards Atlanta, in the south-east of the country, was diverted to oklahoma. Police in that town arrested the suspect, identified as a Delta employee in his 20s who was not on duty, As reported AFP.

After complaining of chest pain and show signs of what the police said was mental problems, the man was hospitalized. Until no other injuries were reported.

In a statement, Delta thanked passengers and crew that “helped stop a rogue passengerThe police searched the plane before allowing the flight to continue and the The FBI has opened an investigation.

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The incident took place on Friday evening, at a time when Americans have been using the airways more than ever since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and have considerable increase in incidents of “unruly passengers“, often by disputes over the use of masks.

In this sense, the data from Federal Aviation Administration CA watch “unruly passenger” incidents“On commercial flights this year, they exploded in the middle of the high stress levels and like the the wearing of the mask took on a political tinge.

The agency has lifted 394 charges in case of “unruly passengers” until May 25 of this year, a rate well above the 183 of the whole of 2020, according to their website.

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