Man jumped from moving plane at Los Angeles airport

A passenger was rushed to hospital Friday night after jumping from a moving plane at Los Angeles International Airport, authorities said.

United Express Flight 5365, operated by SkyWest, He was walking away from the boarding gate shortly after 7 p.m. when a man unsuccessfully attempted to enter the cockpit. Unable to enter, he changed his objective towards the emergency exit. Object He opened the back door and jumped off the slide onto the track, according to reports from the airport, FBI and SkyWest. The pilots managed to stop the plane in the middle of a taxi.

The audio recording of air traffic control with the pilots reflected the course of the incident in the cockpit: “Charlie 4 Charlie, Could you call law enforcement because we’re going back to the door? A threat level passenger may have jumped from the plane“Said the commander to the tower.

The man was stopped in the filming area, and received medical attention for non-life threatening injuries. Then it was taken to hospital, according to the authorities.

The plane, a twin-engine Embraer 175 bound for Salt Lake City, Utah, returned to the departure gate, the airport said. No one else on the plane was injured.

The ship finally left for Salt Lake City on Friday evening and arrived early Saturday morning, the Flightaware website reported. The FBI is investigating what happened, spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said on Saturday.

It was the second incident recorded at LAX in two days. On Thursday, a driver climbed through a chain-link fence at a FedEx freight center and entered the terminal, crossing the runways as police chased the car. Authorities said the driver had been arrested and no injuries had been reported. Two of the runways were briefly closed.

And a few weeks ago, on June 4, a Delta airline flight was forced to deviating from its route and landing at another destination after a passenger was involved in an incident while attempting to approach the aircraft cabin. The company said that on Flight 386, from Los Angeles to Nashville, the crew and passengers “They helped stop an unruly passenger as the flight was rerouted”.

Video of the incident shows attendants and travelers struggle with the passenger to tie him up hands and feet with a yellow rope and then carried it to the back of the plane, where they placed him face down on a seat. A witness revealed that the person who tried to enter the cabin was screaming nonstop “Stop the plane”.

The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said in May to have received 1,300 airline complaints about problem passengers this year and announced proposals for civil sanctions – some exceeding the $ 30,000– against more than ten passengers in recent weeks.

As part of its zero tolerance policy announced in January, the FAA has already does not warn or advise unruly passengers, but acts directly. The entity is empowered to impose civil penaltiesBut let the police decide whether or not to initiate criminal proceedings against the passengers.

(With AP information)

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