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Witnesses and video say a punch was thrown at a Southwest Airlines plane in Dallas on Monday, marking the latest incident of unruly passenger behavior.
While a Phoenix-bound passenger was boarding Flight 117 at Dallas Love Field Airport, a man in a tan blazer confronted another man and punched him with a flurry of punches, passenger Caitlin Johnson said. told CNN on Wednesday.
“And the next thing you know, he started hitting guys,” Johnson said.
She said passengers jumped in to defuse the situation.
In Johnson’s video, a man in a blazer can be seen holding another man in a headlock and saying obscene things when a passenger tries to intervene.
A passenger could be heard saying, “Stop,” and another said, “Get off him,” and “Keep your hands off of him.”
As the passengers pull the two men apart, the man in the blazer turns to face the other man.
“No! Don’t hit him again,” a passenger can be heard saying.
After the altercation, the video shows a man in a blazer telling passengers that his attacker had aggressively approached his family. “Tell them what you did,” the Blazer man says in the video.
According to Johnson, the two eventually left the plane before it took off.
Southwest Airlines confirmed the incident in a statement.
“We commend our crew for managing the situation as safety professionals and ensuring the comfort of other passengers in the cabin,” the airline said in a statement sent to CNN. I don’t have any details to share except that it arrived on time.”
Dallas police told CNN in a statement Wednesday that they responded after the incident and were not arrested.
Man arrested for stabbing flight attendant while trying to open plane door
Unruly passengers continue to be a problem on flights around the country, adding to many recent travel disruptions, including bird strikes, plane-to-plane crashes on the ground, and severe turbulence episodes.
A Massachusetts man was arrested Monday on suspicion of attempting to stab a flight attendant in the neck three times with a broken metal spoon after trying to open an emergency exit door during a flight from Los Angeles to Boston. .
Francisco Severo Torres, 33, has been charged with one count of attempting to interfere with a flight attendant or flight attendant with a dangerous weapon.
Torres was arrested at Boston Logan International Airport on Monday and remains in custody pending a hearing set for Thursday.
