A student pilot was trapped in the American Airlines jet

A student pilot jumped on the fence of a busy Florida airport and managed to sneak aboard a passenger plane early Thursday, before being attacked by two attendants at the airport. Maintenance – a security breach.

The 22-year-old suspect – who was not publicly named, but who was identified as a part-time Florida aviation management student from Trinidad and Tobago – parked his red sedan at on the scale a security barrier, according to CNN.

He ran across the tarmac and climbed into an Airbus A321 with over 200 American Airlines seats, which was undergoing maintenance, according to the report.

On board the plane, the intruder crossed two workers, who demanded to see his identity card and his security badge, reported CNN.

When the man ignored the request and pushed him back to the cockpit, the workers seized him and pulled him off the jet.

One of the interviewers, who was thinking quickly, came forward to ask for help, while the other, joined by two other colleagues, said he was in the room. is striving to keep the man away.

"It seems we have four heroes here at Orlando International Airport in Orlando," spokeswoman Lori Booker told Spectrum News 13.

Authorities, ranging from local cops to the FBI and the Joint Terrorism Task Force, went to the scene and took the man into custody.

Investigators searched the man's sedan with a robotic arm before judging it safe and towing it, CNN reported.

The suspect's motive – held at Brevard County Jail with pending charges – remains unclear.

But "there obviously seemed to be planning," said Booker.

The suspect, who had a driver's license in Florida, was studying part-time aviation management at the Florida Institute of Technology and had completed flight training, the school said in a statement.

The school did not name the student, but stated that they were cooperating with the investigation.

Despite the alarming violation, Booker insisted that "airport security was working properly".

The airport was locked out for several hours, but returned to normal service at 7 am