The passenger "Slurring" United Airlines almost jumps from the emergency exit
Another passenger says that the man was angry because he was asked to leave his assigned seat.
Despite United Airlines' Motto, Flying the Friendly Skies did not occur on a red eye to Houston from San Francisco International Airport early Tuesday morning - alone sleeping! Any chance of closing your eye for passengers on the night flight literally I got out of the window after a ticket tried to skip emergency exit doors after an altercation with the on -board agents.
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Naya Jimenez , who caught the incident on video, said Coyable news , that when she asked a woman who was sitting in her seat to move, her husband got angry and refused to get up and return to their real attributed seats. When faced with a door , Jimenez said the male passenger had started to blur his speech. "They had to call on a door attempt to try to talk to them two," she said. "Then he started to blur his speech a little, like:" Sir, why would you smreck me? "This is the first thing he said."
As he was unleashed, he started to swing his arms several times, trying to hit the employee of United. Other passengers jumped and tried to stop him, but it was then that Jimenez said he ran forward to the plane and that the situation began to really degenerate.
"After stopping for a minute, he ran to the place where the pilot was, where the emergency exit doors are, and tried to open it. (He) opened the exit of the urgency and was about to jump, "she said to Coyable news .
Fortunately, the plane was still anchored, but because it was suspended to reach the boarding gate, the unidentified passenger "apparently jumped two floors on the ground," she explained. At this stage, the staff, as well as the help of the passengers who intervened, were able to master it. "The on -board agents have just started the game and everyone has brought him back safe," said Jimenez.
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In a declaration at Eyewitness News, United said the police had immediately been informed of the situation.
"On Sunday evening, our San Francisco International Airport team immediately contacted law enforcement officials after a customer was disruptive when boarding, said the airline." We are grateful to our San Francisco team for their professionalism in this situation and for paying attention to the safety of our customers and their united employee colleagues. ""
We do not know if the angry passenger is charged by the San Francisco police.
It is certainly not the first incident in which an unruly passenger created chaos (and fear) during a flight. Coinciding with cocovated pandemic mask mandates, there have been a record number of incidents with abusive passengers in 2021. And although the figures are slightly decreased last year, investigations by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA ) are always 470% higher that in 2019, reports Axios.
Senator Jack Rose called it an "air rage epidemic" and is sponsor a bipartite invoice This would create a new list of non-theft of transport safety (ASD) only for unruly passengers like man on this flight.
