SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — Court docket information say a passenger on a small regional flight to Miami attacked a flight attendant, kicked and punched the seat of the particular person in entrance of him and swallowed rosary beads as pilots returned to the airport in Savannah, Georgia.
The passenger was touring together with his sister, who mentioned her brother instructed her earlier than the violent outburst to “shut her eyes and pray as a result of Devil’s disciple(s) had adopted them onto the airplane,” in keeping with an FBI agent’s affidavit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court docket.
Nobody was significantly harm on the Monday evening flight operated by Envoy Air, a regional service for American Airways. The 31-year-old passenger was jailed on costs together with misdemeanor battery, misdemeanor obstruction of police and a felony rely of prison property injury.
FBI Agent Savannah Solomon described the violent episode in her affidavit, saying there was possible trigger to cost the person with a federal crime of interfering with a flight crew.
Solomon wrote that eight passengers have been on the airplane and flight attendants turned involved instantly after takeoff once they seen certainly one of them showing to have a “match of epilepsy” that included “stomping, incoherent yelling, and shaking.”
When a flight attendant approached the person, he turned in his seat and kicked the attendant within the chest, sending the employee flying right into a window throughout the aisle, the agent wrote. The passenger then began kicking and punching the seat of the particular person in entrance of him, who moved earlier than the again of the seat collapsed.
The pilots returned to the Savannah airport. After the airplane landed, the person who had kicked the flight attendant charged towards the exit and threw punches at one other flight attendant earlier than being subdued by different passengers, the affidavit says.
He was apprehended by airport police and brought to an area hospital for “ingestion of rosary beads,” the affidavit says. Then the passenger was booked into the Chatham County jail.
Federal court docket information and on-line jail information didn’t listing an lawyer for the arrested passenger.
His sister instructed the FBI agent that they have been touring to Haiti “to flee non secular assaults of a non secular nature.” In line with the affidavit, the lady mentioned her brother had “swallowed the rosary beads as a result of they’re a weapon of power within the non secular warfare.”
The lady instructed the agent her brother was not affected by psychological well being issues or medical points.
