An American Airlines plane had to be diverted to the airport in El Paso, Texas, this Tuesday by a passenger who started screaming that everyone would die and that it was time to repent.
The flight 1295 left Miami, Florida, bound for Los Angeles, California, in the morning hours.
However, the pilot had to make an emergency landing in the Texas city due to a disturbance in the cabin involving a disorderly passenger.
“The local law enforcement authorities arrived at the plane after landing and the flight took off with the rest of the passengers”, was limited to indicate in an email to the Daily Beast Derek Walls, spokesman for the AA.
A passenger told the same outlet that because it was an early flight, most of the passengers were working and minding their own business , until the tantrum began to speak incoherently.
“Suddenly, we heard screams coming from the back, and a flight attendant was saying to a female passenger, like, ‘you Is in danger?’ ‘is something going on?’ ‘are you okay?’. And she said, ‘no, we’re all going to die. Repent, repent!’”.
According to the witness, who asked not to be identified, the traveler had moved to the front to use the bathroom, and that’s when the tantrum began with the harassment of other passengers.
Subsequently, flight personnel were able to subdue the woman and place flexible handcuffs on her while a off-duty police officer sat next to her to try to calm her down.
Apparently, the woman was not in her right mind or experiencing a mental breakdown at the time of the incident.
The air authorities decided to land after the woman told the staff that she wanted to get off the plane.
It is not clear if the woman was charged with a crime.
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