A Boston flight forced to land in Missouri for an "unruly" passenger

BOSTON, MA – A plane bound for Boston was rerouted Monday night to Kansas City International Airport and finally landed in Boston Tuesday morning due to an unruly passenger Monday night, officials said. l & # 39; airport.

Ross Feinstein, a spokesman for American Airlines, told Patch No. 2763 of Flight to Boston that he was landing in Missouri at 19:44. and was "deviated because of an unruly passenger."

The security forces removed the passenger once in Missouri and the flight that was to land in Boston at 23:26. went back to Boston and arrived at 1:09

Witnesses told the WBZ that the disruptive passenger appeared to be intoxicated and that he was at one point doing push-ups on the upper luggage compartments.

"The flight attendant probably asked him three or four times to sit down and he refused to sit down and he was really upset with her, starting to name her," said the passenger. David Markoski at WBZ.

American Airlines has said it does not know how many times its flights have to be diverted because of "unruly" passengers.

A spokeswoman for the FBI office in Kansas City, who reacts when the flights are hijacked, said that there had been no arrests or charges filed at that time -the.

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