unruly passenger

As the video of a violent outburst on a Boston-bound plane goes viral, security experts are sounding the alarm about a surge of unruly passengers in recent years. The Leominster man accused of causing the chaos on a flight Sunday afternoon is facing federal charges, but it is far from the only scare in the air that has happened recently….

A Leominster man is facing federal charges after a violent outburst on a Boston-bound plane.

Video captured the moment passengers and flight crew members had to hold down an unruly passenger who they say tried to open a plane door mid-air on an American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C.

American Airlines flight 1175 from Los Angeles International Airport to Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C., was diverted to Kansas City due to an unruly passenger.

A passenger on a Delta flight from Washington, D.C. to Los Angeles recorded the moment that a man was removed from the airplane in handcuffs after allegedly assaulting a flight attendant and air marshal.

A flight from Washington, D.C., to Los Angeles was diverted to Oklahoma City after an unruly passenger assaulted a flight attendant and an air marshal who was on board the Delta Air Lines plane, police said.