Alaska Airlines flight attendant repeatedly pounded his fists at a male passenger who was seen in a video recorded earlier this month, allegedly attacking a woman sitting in front of him.
Flight 2221 was scheduled to travel to Portland, Oregon from California's Oakland Airport on February 1, but an unruly passenger sat in front of him, according to an individual who posted a video of the wild scene. It is said that he attacked a woman.
“Let go of her hair, sir!”
poster of video Before the plane took off, the man insisted that he “says strange things and go back and forth.”
“The flight attendant was called later [the unruly passenger] He grabbed the woman's hair in front of him and didn't let go, so the flight attendant began to start punching him with his throat,” the video poster wrote.
The video shows a flight attendant smacks an unruly passenger on the side of a fist that has been closed six times, forcing an unruly passenger to let go of a woman's hair.
Another woman can be heard screaming in the video, “Let go of her hair, sir!”
After he is forced to release the woman's hair, she leaves her seat and heads out into the aisle, and he lets out a loud cry.
Members of the flight crew who attacked him hear the passengers say, “I need another healthy man to come to help me.”
Video poster I said The unruly passenger was “detained for a few minutes before being arrested.”
Alaska Airlines issued statement On unruly passengers, praising the actions of flight crew members.
“He appeared to be experiencing a violent medical episode with continuous physical attacks on other passengers and crews,” Alaska Airlines said, “Our crew members have this chaotic We responded promptly to such situations and kept all our guests safe until law enforcement intervened.
Unruly passengers are banned from flying on Alaska Airlines and Horizon Airlines due to physical attacks.
The suspect's name has not been released.
The plane returned to its gate and the flight was cancelled. The Oregonian saidquote Air traffic records. The outlet added that Alameda County Sheriff's deputies responded to the incident.
Other Incidents
Recently, there have been multiple unruly passenger incidents.
United Airlines plane flying from San Francisco International Airport to Chicago detoured early Monday morning for unruly passengers. United Airlines I said The flight was repurposed after “one customer became confused and aggressive with the flight attendant.” The suspect, a passenger on the flight, made a disrespectful statement about the Mormons, claiming the suspect was “really starting to scream out loud.”
Last week's incident saw passengers on a Frontier Airlines plane travelling from Denver to Houston breaking a window panel during the flight. The passenger said KTRK-TV The “woman in front of the gentleman asked to move the seat, and when she did it he began kicking a lot and punching the window.”
According to data There have been 120 unruly passenger incidents in 2025 from the Federal Aviation Administration so far. In 2021 there were 6,000 unruly passenger incidents.
In April 2022, the FAA performed zero tolerance policy Forever for unruly passengers. The policy, first introduced in January 2021, issued fines to unruly passengers in lieu of warning letters and counseling.
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