Passengers aboard an American Airlines flight were seen restraining a man sitting in first class who was allegedly violent towards his female travel companion.
Online video sharing It shows several men leaning over a man sitting in the front row of the flight from Miami, Florida to Charlotte, North Carolina, on Wednesday.
One sternly tells the passenger to take his hands off the woman sitting next to him while a flight attendant tries to mediate.
“Don’t touch her,” a man could be heard shouting in the passenger’s face, before he apparently gave an inaudible excuse.
“I don’t give a damn,” the man responds as the passenger argues that he took his hands off the woman. ‘Look at me, you screwed up, don’t touch it.’
A video shared online shows several men leaning over a man sitting in the front row of the flight from Miami, Florida to Charlotte, North Carolina, on Wednesday.
At that moment, a second man warns that the apparently skilled passenger would be arrested if he touched the woman again.
“Get your damn hands off me right now,” he said. “If you touch her again, you’ll be arrested, asshole.”
The first man can then be seen asking the woman if she is okay, before passengers tell him to move to another empty seat, away from his fellow passenger.
While crossing the hallway, the alleged attacker shouts that he was the one who was attacked by the woman, which she flatly denied.
“No, you were not attacked,” the woman replied. “I put my hand over your mouth to make you shut up.”
But the man stood his ground and shouted: ‘You slapped me!’
At that point, many of the passengers who intervened sat back down, except for one man who was in the aisle among the other passengers.
Passengers were seen shouting at him to take his hands off the woman sitting next to him while a flight attendant tried to mediate.
The flight finally landed at Charlotte Douglas International Airport 26 minutes early, Epoch Times reporter Arjun Singh said, but passengers were not allowed to disembark when Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers entered the cabin.
A second video shows an officer speaking to the flight attendant who originally tried to intervene. He pointed to where the facing passengers were sitting.
The officer could then be seen asking the passengers who restrained the man what happened, and they were eventually escorted off the plane by American Airlines officials. he told the New York Post.
A Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officer responded to the scene when the plane landed at Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
“Two customers traveling together got into an altercation aboard American Airlines Flight 310 with service from Miami to Charlotte on October 2,” a spokesperson said. ‘Local law enforcement responded and escorted customers from CLT Airport.
“We do not tolerate violence and thank our team members for their professionalism in handling a difficult situation.”
It is unclear if the passenger was arrested for any crime.
DailyMail.com has contacted Charlotte-Mecklenburg police for comment.
