The federal mask mandate requires passengers to wear face masks on airplanes when they are not eating or drinking. He holds up a water bottle, saying he is "eating and drinking," when a flight attendant trying to defuse the situation tells the woman to put on her own mask.
"Sit down, Karen," the man retorts amid a slew of profanities, shouts and insults from both parties.
Video posted on Twitter by ATL Uncensored shows a woman standing over a fellow passenger, telling him to mask up while her own mask is pulled down below her chin. In response to a pregnant passenger’s social media complaint that a flight attendant didn’t help her store a bag overhead, Delta apologized for the experience but not the decision. "Situations like these are rare for the vast majority of our customers and Delta has zero tolerance for unruly behavior at our airports and aboard our aircraft," the airline said in a statement. The incident happened on Flight 2790 from Tampa, Florida, to Atlanta on Dec. 13, the date the federal mask mandate on planes and at airports ends.Watch Video: Delta Air Lines seeks to create shared ‘no fly’ list of unruly passengers with other airlinesĪn "unruly" passenger was taken into FBI custody after an apparent argument over face masks turned ugly on a Delta flight. American won't bring booze back until Sept. In the wake of the high-profile incident and calls by flight attendant unions to limit alcohol sales on board as travel rebounds, Southwest and American delayed plans to start selling drinks after a long pandemic pause. Southwest's flight attendants union said she lost two teeth in the incident. Last week, a Southwest Airlines flight attendant landed in the hospital after a passenger punched her in the face. The incident comes as airlines are seeing a spike in passengers behaving badly, forcing a crackdown by the Federal Aviation Administration. and is scheduled to depart for Nashville this evening, arriving about five hours behind schedule. The plane landed at the airport at 2:18 p.m. The Boeing 737-900 was carrying 162 passengers and six crew members. In a statement, Delta did not provide details of the inflight incident or confirm the passenger tried to breach the cockpit.ĭelta spokesman Anthony Black said Flight 386 landed without incident in Albuquerque and he praised the crew and passengers on the flight for "detaining an unruly passenger'' on the flight. The videos show a male Delta flight attendant appearing to detain the passenger in the back of the plane and also shows a passenger with his wrists ziptied tied behind his back. One passenger on the flight posted videos of the incident on Twitter and said the flight had to make an emergency landing because a passenger "tried to hijack'' the plane.
The Albuquerque FBI did not immediately respond to a request for comment but confirmed in a Twitter post it was responding to diverted flight that landed at the airport. She said the unidentified passenger was detained by police at the airport once it landed, and the investigation is being turned over the the FBI. Watch Video: Delta Air Lines flight attendants detain 'unruly' passengerĪ passenger on a Delta Air Lines flight from LA to Nashville reportedly tried to breach the cockpit Friday, forcing the plane to divert to New Mexico, airport officials in Albuquerque said.Īlbuquerque International Sunport had received reports from an air traffic control tower that a passenger on the plane had attempted to breach the cabin, according to airport spokeswoman Stephanie Kitts. An off-duty Delta Air Lines flight attendant apparently commandeered the intercom on an Atlanta-bound flight Friday night, leading to a scuffle that forced the plane to land in Oklahoma.
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