A young woman was taken off a Frontier Airlines flight at Miami International Airport after getting into a fight with another passenger.
Simone Bryna Kim, 24, of Killeen, Texas, was arrested Tuesday afternoon after Miami-Dade police had to remove her from the flight.
The plane was preparing to head to Philadelphia when Kim and another passenger came face to face in the aisle as passengers boarded the flight.
“I’m whatever you want,” Kim can be heard telling the man. ‘I’m going to give you a beating. What are you trying to be?
“One thing, I’m going to shake your s**t off,” he said as he leaned around a woman who was trying to defuse the situation to yell at the man. ‘If you’re real, show me what’s up. I’m going to beat the crap out of you in this shit, I guarantee it, I guarantee it.’
A crew member in a yellow vest can be seen asking Kim to leave, but she refused, prompting the police to respond. When she again refused, law enforcement asked everyone to get off the plane, according to Local News 10.
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Simone Bryna Kim, 24, of Killeen, Texas, was arrested Tuesday afternoon after Miami-Dade police officers had to remove her from the flight.
When Kim was informed that he was under arrest, he began to “push (and) pull” the officers and scratched and bit some of them. She was later removed from the plane and taken to jail.
Video from inside the plane shows a group of officers escorting her off the plane. When they reached the bottom of the stairs, four officers had to carry her to the patrol car.
The officers tried to hold her legs, but she started kicking when they did. She also nearly knocked an officer down the stairs during her struggle.
She was booked into the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and later released on bail.
Kim is facing two felony assaults on a police officer, one felony resisting an officer with violence, three misdemeanors assaulting an officer and one misdemeanor trespassing.
Kim’s outburst is just one of many seen at US airports since a post-pandemic travel boom was born.
Earlier this month, Francisco Severo Torres, 33, of Massachusetts, was charged with one count of interference and attempted interference with flight crew members after he attempted to stab a crew member with a spoon. broken wood.
“I’m whatever you want,” Kim can be heard telling the man. ‘I’m going to give you a beating. What are you trying to be? One thing, I’m going to shake your s**t off,’ he said as he leaned around a female passenger who was trying to defuse the situation.
Kim was asked to leave the flight, but she refused because she kept arguing with the man. She was later escorted by police officers, whom she bit, kicked and scratched.
She nearly hit the officer down the stairs as she struggled to get out of his grasp (pictured) as she was led to patrol.
Kim is facing two felony assaults on a police officer, one felony resisting an officer with violence, three misdemeanors assaulting an officer and one misdemeanor trespassing.
The flight captain radioed air traffic control to tell them that Torres had been stopped by passengers but was “not going quietly,” and that six people were holding him down as the plane landed.
Torres had boarded United Airlines Flight 2609 Sunday in Los Angeles, bound for Boston.
With 45 minutes remaining on the journey, a member of the cabin crew reported that an emergency exit had been tampered with.
A flight attendant noticed that the door lock handle had moved out of the fully locked position about a quarter of the way toward the unlocked position.
Kim isn’t the only wayward passenger. Tiffany Michelle Miles, 36, of Washington DC, was arrested last month after she got into an altercation with the crew because they took too long to serve her alcoholic beverage.
She was arrested and charged with misdemeanor airport obstruction, which carries a 20-year jail term, but was later dropped.
The emergency slide arming lever had also been moved to the disarmed position, authorities said.
The crew secured the door and slide.
Another flight attendant had noticed Torres near the door and believed he had tampered with it. The crew told the captain that he was a threat and that the plane had to land as soon as possible.
At that point, prosecutors allege, Torres got up from his seat, approached two flight attendants standing in the aisle and used the spoon to make stabbing motions, striking a flight attendant three times in the neck area before to be immobilized.
Last month, Tiffany Michelle Miles, 36, of Washington DC, became angry after flight crews took a long time to serve her alcoholic drink. It was originally reported that she had attempted to breach the cabin, forcing the American Airlines flight to make an emergency landing. She later claimed that she was getting up to use the bathroom.
She was charged with misdemeanor obstruction of the airport, which carries a 20-year jail term, but later dropped out.
