OKLAHOMA CITY POLICE ARE TELLING UST THA THE SUSPECT WAS AN OFF-DUTY DELTA EMPLOYEE, BUT IT ‘T ’S UNCLEAR AT THIS TIME IF THEY WERE A PILOT OR NOT, BUT PASSENGERS ARE TELLING US TTHA THE SUSPECT WAS ACTING VERY STRANGE. THEY HAD ON A BICYCLE HELMET. THEY WERE BLOCKING OFF THE BATHROOMS AND THEY WERE STARTING TO GET VERY AGGRESSIVE TOWARDS THE COCKPIT. PUT ON YOUR OXYGEN MASKS AND ALL OF TSHI AND THEN THE THE STEWARDESSES STARTED GETTING A LITTLE MORE AGGRESSIVE WITH HIM AND JUST TRYING TO CONFRONT HIM AND ONE OF THE GENTLEMEN CAME IN FROM THE BACK OF THE PLANE ONE OF THE STEWARD. AND CONFRONTED THIS G ANDUY THEN SAID WE NEED HELP. YEAH, THE PASSENGERS THEN INTERVENED AND DETAINED THE SUSPECT UNTIL THE PLANE HAD AN EMERGENCY LANDING HERE AT WILL ROGERS WORLD AIRPORT. NOW AGAIN, NOBODY WAS HURT AND THE FBI IS TAKING OVER THIS INVESTIGATION, BUT WERE A VERY THANKFUL FOR TSEHO PASSENGERS AND THEIR BRAVERY TO DETAIN THAT SUSPECT REPORT.
Man describes tense moments when unruly passenger forces plane to make emergency landing in OKC
Police arrested a man after a Delta flight from Los Angeles to Atlanta was forced to make an emergency landing at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City due to an unruly passenger.One passenger told police a man was “trying to take down the plane.” Several passengers helped take control of what could have been a very dangerous situation.According to Oklahoma City police, the suspect was an off-duty Delta employee. It’s unclear at this time whether he was a pilot, but a passenger said the suspect had on a helmet, blocked off the bathroom and acted aggressively around the cockpit. “And then this gentleman got on the intercom, and he started talking about, like, ‘Put on your oxygen masks,’ and all of this,” passenger Darren Genet said. “The stewardesses started getting a little more aggressive with him and just trying to confront him. And one of the gentlemen came in from the back of the plane – one of the stewards – and confronted this guy and then said, ‘We need help.'”So, the passengers intervened and controlled the suspect until the plane landed at Will Rogers World Airport. The FBI has taken over the investigation and is working to determine what exactly happened.No injuries were reported.
OKLAHOMA CITY —
Police arrested a man after a Delta flight from Los Angeles to Atlanta was forced to make an emergency landing at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City due to an unruly passenger.
One passenger told police a man was “trying to take down the plane.” Several passengers helped take control of what could have been a very dangerous situation.
According to Oklahoma City police, the suspect was an off-duty Delta employee. It’s unclear at this time whether he was a pilot, but a passenger said the suspect had on a helmet, blocked off the bathroom and acted aggressively around the cockpit.
“And then this gentleman got on the intercom, and he started talking about, like, ‘Put on your oxygen masks,’ and all of this,” passenger Darren Genet said. “The stewardesses started getting a little more aggressive with him and just trying to confront him. And one of the gentlemen came in from the back of the plane – one of the stewards – and confronted this guy and then said, ‘We need help.'”
So, the passengers intervened and controlled the suspect until the plane landed at Will Rogers World Airport. The FBI has taken over the investigation and is working to determine what exactly happened.
No injuries were reported.
